COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Hand rendered typography

A range of typeface's in which I hand rendered into my poster designs

www.1001fonts.com 

Monbijoux typeface - 

Fonts found within Illustrator :

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - All the translations

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

I used this website for all the translations to make my posters legit in regard to language.

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - An amazing series of poster designs

A consistant design throughout, using type only. I absolutely love these, and hope we can produce something just as great for our current group project.

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Motivating designs

Just a few motivational posters I found

Similair to my own style, hand drawn, expressive typography draw in a range of fonts to produce a simple, yet effective design. In this case, a post card like format.

Double sided. Possibly something to think about?

The well known 'keep calm and carry on' posters. And it huge range of other phrases. Its consistent and fluent in its design style, font, and iconic crown feature.

Photography based

I like the idea of writing or printing something to then take a photograph of it. It's an approach I will most defiantly try out.

Using famous quote is a very cliche and obvious approach to this. Although I do like the idea, we are trying to be unique in our approach to the brief.

Entirely type based design - Do I want to do that? 

Image and type based?

I really really like this design. It's simple, using simply type and lines, with just 3 colours, but it's very effective.

Format - Frames work

This design is very like my own, using just text, is a a4 layout reading down. I like the presentation of framing the work, to take a photo, and to use that as the poster itself.

Using several Mediums, Pen, ink and paint.

Taking hand drawn into illustrator

Adding humour to motivate you. A direction I could take?

Screen printing

As I want to do some screen printing for my posters, I found these. Not too sure about the frame format here, but used simply as a poster is very effective.

Relating to exersize, using collage.

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Languages - Translations

For my posters I want to use examples of the most popular languages and trasnlate the phrase 'Learn a language'. Here are my results:




(learn a language)

Spanish  -  Aprender un idioma

Chinese - 学习一门语言

German - Lernen Sie eine Sprache

Portuguese - Aprenda uma linguagem

Japanese - 言語を学んでください

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Language - George Weber

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm


I found this website talking about an article by George Weber, much of the information and stats deemed useful to what and how I wnated to design my posters. I wanted to make people aware of how popular our language is with other countires, and how they act differently to our own in teaching their children, from a young age, a second, common language.


'The world's top ten most influential languages'


This article was researched by George Weber in the early 1990s and written up in 1995. It was first published in the now sadly defunct and still missed Language Today by the magazine's editor.

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Languages - 2

http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm


This website contains some more in depth statistics about languages used around the world.

The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French* (79,572,000)

The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
2. Hindi (333 million)
3. Spanish (332 million)
4. English (322 million)
5. Bengali (189 million)
6. Arabic (186 million)
7. Russian (170 million)
8. Portuguese (170 million)
9. Japanese (125 million)
10. German (98 million)
11. French (72 million)

The following list is from George Weber’s article “Top Languages: The World’s 10 Most Influential Languages” in Language Today (Vol. 2, Dec 1997):
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)
2. English (330 million)
3. Spanish (300 million)
4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
5. Arabic (200 million)
6. Bengali (185 million)
7. Portuguese (160 million)
8. Russian (160 million)
9. Japanese (125 million)
10. German (100 million)
11. Punjabi (90 million)
12. Javanese (80 million)
13. French (75 million)

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Languages

For the content of my motivational poster designs I needed to find out about languages, which was the most used and how many people spoke it. I found a website online stating the 50 most used languages in the world with some stats and numbers.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html

1. Chinese, Mandarin Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand 1120  2. English Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Zambia. 480  3. Spanish Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. 332  4. Arabic Egypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon 235  5. Bengali Bangladesh, India, Singapore 189  6. Hindi India, Nepal, Singapore, S. Africa, Uganda 182  7. Russian Belarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, U.S., Uzbekistan 180  8. Portuguese Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Macau 170  9. Japanese Japan, Singapore, Taiwan 125  10. German Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland 98 11. Chinese, Wu China 77.2 12. Javanese Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore 75.5 13. Korean China, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand 75 14. French Algeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Vietnam 72 15. Turkish Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Uzbekistan 69 16. Vietnamese China, Vietnam 67.7 17. Telugu India, Singapore 66.4 18. Chinese, Yue(Cantonese) Brunei, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam 66 19. Marathi India 64.8 20. Tamil India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, S. Africa, Sri Lanka 63.1 21. Italian Croatia, Eritrea, France, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland 59 22. Urdu Afghanistan, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, S. Africa, Thailand 58 23. Chinese, Min Nan Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand 49 24. Chinese, Jinyu China 45 25. Gujarati India, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, S. Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe 44 26. Polish Czech Rep., Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia 44 27. Ukrainian Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine 41 28. Persian Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, U A Emirates 37.3 29. Chinese, Xiang China 36 30. Malayalam India, Singapore 34 31. Chinese, Hakka Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand 34 32. Kannada India 33.7 33. Oriya India 31 34. Panjabi, Western India, Pakistan 30 35. Sunda Indonesia 27 35. Panjabi, Eastern India, Kenya, Singapore 26 36. Romanian Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine 26 37. Bhojpuri India, Mauritius, Nepal 25 38. Azerbaijani, South Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey 24.4 40. Maithili India, Nepal 24.3 41. Hausa Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo 24.2 43. Burmese Bangladesh, Myanmar 22 44. Serbo-Croatian4 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia 21 45. Chinese, Gan China 20.6 46. Awadhi India, Nepal 20.5 47. Thai Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia 20 48. Dutch Belgium, France, Netherlands, Suriname 20 49. Yoruba Benin, Nigeria 20 50. Sindhi Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Singapore 19.7