Laurensius Adi - Design and Lettering

Who doesn't need money? Of course everybody wants it. I'm looking for it at my own. And this is a short story about me in a journey of finding a happiness. My family is not the very rich one, where you can ask for something as just buy it straight away. I want to buy something expensive, but I don't have the money. I try to search in the internet, how to get money online. I don't get the real answer that I want. Many of them are fake or just Pay per Click that you can't really depend on. Until I find this real freelance or part-time job. It's not a real job though, it's a contest.

At my first year at High School, I took an extracurricular of Graphic Design. The teacher teach me how to use Corel Draw and Photoshop. I fell in love with it. I spent much time looking browsing around the internet looking for good graphic design tutorial. I study hard to improve my skill. From zero to be something. Whenever my school have an event I'm the one who they look ing for to make a poster for the event. I don't get paid any cent for it. I thought it was a good chance to improve my skill.

With my only laptop and a mobile broadband modem, I start my quest in 99design. I've entered 9 contest when I got my first winning. It's a logo contest, making a logo for a Thailand restaurant. I big leap for me. Since then I decided to become a great designer. So I still join some contest and improve my skill everyday.

This is the logo that make me winning the contest.


It's not an instant winning. I work so many hours on this. I do mistakes and so many revisions.




I changed color scheme from red-orange to orange-green-black, also changes the font several times. And the contest holder decide to use the 'mozaic' tree rather than the 'doodle' tree. And with the begining font. It's not a very good logo, but because the contest holder like what I've done there, he chose me. Overall, I beat 142 entries by 34 other designers to win a $200 prize.

A $200 price is a rather big money for teenager on High School like me, moreover, it's Indonesia. It's about Rp 1.900.000,- in Indonesian Rupiah. I spent it for a Hanvon tablet - because Wacom one is more expensive, and I bought a new Wrangler jeans. That's such a wonderful time for me. And then I realized, that the design world is much much bigger than I thought. I still trying improve my skill recently. And I'm happy making design. Right now, I'm doing hand-lettering and still struggling on 99designs to get more winning.

Georgia Hill is an Australian freelance typographer, illustrator and graphic designer working from Berlin, Germany. She's doing great artworks from small logos, posters to wall mural. I think she got an unlimited creativity because she's making arts on many media, and it's so colorful and lot of detail.

I hope someday I can do something incredible like she does. These are her artworks from Behance.















Check her work and give your appreciation! http://be.net/georgiahill

Tom Lane, more commonly known as Ginger Monkey, currently living in Bristol (UK). Besides Lettering and making Typography, he is an Illustrator and a Designer too. He got a great skill on both lettering and illustrating. He has worked extensively over the last 8 years for an array of international and national clients, large and small, including: Nike Air Jordan, Coco-Cola, Sony Ericsson, Bicycle, BMW & Mercedes.

I hope someday I can do something incredible like he does. These are his artworks from Behance.






 

 





Check out his works and give your appreciation! http://be.net/GingerMonkey

Martin Schmetzer is a Typographer with wonderful talent and skill. Diligence is the key to get such a result. Pencil, ballpoint, ink and pen isn't just a ordinary tool when it's on his hand. Every piece is a masterpiece.

You can see that level of detail in his arts. What I can see here, he got his own style. Pointed edges, strokes, his hand-made font, and the ribbons. I hope someday I can do something incredible like he does. These are his artworks from Behance.








 
Check his works and give your appreciation! http://be.net/PapperOPenna

Actually a private project, but I'd love to share it with the world. The way I approach every pages and the typefaces that should be shared I think.

The book project start on July 9th and finished on July 16th. Not the easy one either, I face some problems making it. Distraction comes at anytime, from friends and social network. The deadline for myself is strict, 7 days from buying things I need, till it forms a book. Here are the things I bought.


There are : Micron 0.1 and 0.5, Pentel Sharplet, Stabilo 0.4 Grey Color, Snowman Marker, a new sketch book, and a thick cardboard for hard cover.

I made about 2-4 pages a day to be on schedule. Here are the pages I made. Every pieces got its own meaning personally and for the person whom I gave the book. A book of us, our relationship.

That's all the pages, the inside of the book. I don't upload another 2 pages which is contain our name, and a pages just include Our Story phrase. And there's another one that I forget to take the picture.

I made all the pages plus the hard cover into a book like this.


There you go. I don't capture the process of making the book, because it's the bad one. Not clean, full of mistakes. I only try to get the result as good as possible, no matter how the book is made.

Thanks all for seeing my own project.

Life is a choice. Choose one and never regret.

By the way, do you know that sometimes, life is really really rough.

Just hope my life will be better and better.