Josh Clement

Youtubeduplication — I.M.H.O.

joshuaclement — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:24 +1000

This was my favourite song of yesterday. I knew nothing about the artist, Touch Sensitive. I heard it on a mixtape, tweeted it, and played …

I’m trying to direct all longer from writing to Medium. This piece is about duplicate songs uploaded to Youtube.

7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now

joshuaclement — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:46:00 +1000

7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now:

Gaussian Blurred rap videos made it to HUFF POST. We internet famous!

Blessed Ja Rule has answered my prayers, bestowing upon me...

joshuaclement — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:17:00 +1000

Blessed Ja Rule has answered my prayers, bestowing upon me powerful, emotionally charged thug rap helping me in my time of need… May he do the same to you my brethren. http://www.pleasehelpmejarule.com/ja-rule-blessed-me-with/always-on-time

This sweet one pager was made by Rhys and Brett from my work.

My desk. 26/4/13 That cardboard face thing was just something I...

joshuaclement — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:00:01 +1000

My desk. 26/4/13

That cardboard face thing was just something I drew, I can’t explain why tho.

Tarantino Close-Ups

joshuaclement — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:52:15 +1000

Tarantino Close-Ups:

Check it out, this side project is el completo!

Gaussian Blurred Rap Videos

joshuaclement — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:40:00 +1000

Gaussian blurred rap videos is a single topic blog that myself and co-worker Rhys Hillman launched today. The concept is pretty simple: You screenshot a frame from a rap video and apply a 30 pixel gaussian blur filter to it. It takes about 10 seconds, and you’re left with an aesthetically pleasing composition.

It’d be cool to apply the blur to the whole clip, but that takes a bit more manpower; the point of this exercise was to get the content finished and published within a week, and then spend another few days emailing the link around to see if it gets a bit of traction. Move fast, break things etc etc. I’m all for photoshop intensive tumblr content like thumbs and sport balls but I just honestly don’t have the time for all that clone stamp work.

We’ve seen Tarantino from below, now it’s time to...

joshuaclement — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:15:00 +1000

We’ve seen Tarantino from below, now it’s time to get extremely close-up. As for his other films, I should have them all uploaded by the end of the week.

EDIT: ALL THE VIDS ARE UP ON THEIR OWN BLOG. because i can

Geoff Rowley

joshuaclement — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:27:00 +1000

At 7:30 pm, almost 7 years ago, I downloaded this image off Volcom’s homepage.

Why I downloaded it, I’m not exactly sure. There’s two reasons. 1: I liked the look of it as a desktop background and/or 2: I needed ‘inspiration’ for a school project. At the time I was studying the second unit of Visual Communication at High School, so artistic reference would have been something in high demand.

What I can remember: The image was found in the ‘media’ section of the Volcom website. I’m pretty sure this design was briefed in with the sole purpose of plastering Volcom logos on thousands of teenagers’ desktop wallpapers.

Their black and white logo was already a familiar face to me; scribbled in the back of exercise books by my peers and I, not because we all skated (a few of us did), but because it was easy to draw and looked cooler than bombing your own name.

Skateboarding was a huge way to forge teenage identity, and although a company logo like Volcom’s says a hell of a lot about who you are, nothing was (and in some cases still is) as powerful as a photograph. The exotic locations of Southern Californian backwater towns and unattainable swag; tight jeans that were still years off the mainstream market.

The photo was king. In magazines like Slam or Thrasher they usually ran good ones at full bleed; well light, urban stair scenes warped into hyper-real visions, the ever present distorted fish eye lens.

It took me until somewhere near graduation to email the editor of Slam magazine, naively asking him how to achieve a photo that looked that special, skateboard magazine way. This thirst for a certain photographic aesthetic would quickly giveway to night-party photography, especially the now defunct Streetparty parties.

Date unknown. (should find this out). Emulating the flash/long exposure style of certain party photographers.

Here you can see my ‘inspiration’ for my own watermark; for whatever reason I was obsessed with that crudely drawn Streetparty logo…

The image here isn’t static though, it’s an image sequence. A collage is really not the quickest, easiest nor most efficient way to show Rowley performing a flip trick (a 5 second video clip is), but it sure looks cool. Back then, collage was graphic design. It was what was popular ergo, everything else was boring and not worth designing.

It was easy enough to use the pen tool and scrap together objects, the problem was the ‘open brief’ theory, where your brain is swamped with just too many damn options. The designer here has shown restraint; Exaggerating the art direction of the photo shoot with a few cheeky objects sprayed across the spread: an in house designer’s wet dream.

Lastly, I was shocked to recognise the typeface choice. Back then, I probably could have told you that it looked ‘different’, and that it would have played a minor role in the reasons my brain made the split second choice: yep, click, download. But I really couldn’t have told you anything about the typeface, I simply couldn’t see it.

It wasn’t until about 4 years later, during my second year of University, that I properly noticed and identified the typeface. I interviewed an artist for our school magazine that I was art directing, and while researching for the article, I saw a piece of his that I loved.

Haylock, Brad. Crazed and Defused. 2008. The Narrows, Melbourne.

The font was Friz Quadrata. I didn’t think much of it, until a year and a few more hundred beers and coffees later when I recalled it for my graduation poster.

The aforementiend poster: A series of 4, A3 risographs that documented slang words and phrases that friends had invented.

Coincendece? Probably. Maybe Brad had been indirectly influenced by Volcom’s marketing team like me, or maybe he’d come across Friz earlier, say 2003 at the theatrical release of Kill Bill.

I guess this is how we work as designers, constantly drawing upon memories, things that ‘like’ or might use someday. That might be why people find it hard to talk about their design work: so many of the choices they made that led towards the finished product were entirely subconcious and driven by years and years of looking at and thinking about things.

I didn't know command + i = text readout of layers!

joshuaclement — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:24:00 +1000

Here’s a photoshop file that I’ve been working on since Tuesday, turns out I make a lot of layers!

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Unlimited Broadband. 2013. Print-ready free download.

joshuaclement — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:23:00 +1100

Unlimited Broadband. 2013.

Print-ready free download.

Poster I designed for the Y&R New York office. Tony...

joshuaclement — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:41:00 +1100

Poster I designed for the Y&R New York office.

Tony Granger’s thoughts? “Very cool.”

(I can live off a comment like that for about a day before I start self-doubting again.)

The dive bars of Jackie Brown.

joshuaclement — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:29:39 +1100

The dive bars of Jackie Brown.

"Prompt"

joshuaclement — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:52:00 +1100

‘A users understanding of your application improves over time.’

The more we use these apps, the better we get to know them. The app doesn’t become more efficient, we become more efficient at using it. We make up our own shortcuts, we prefer working full screen, or we style a unique layout of toolbars and actions to save as a preset. At my work, when all the creatives upgraded to Adobe CS5.5, there was a collective groan heard as we booted Photoshop out of the box. Back to sleeping in a hotel bed, everyone quickly got to work dirtying the sheets.

Elimination > Substitution

We love to personalize stuff, and for me that’s a process of elimanation rather than substitution. When I started my job I had a desk lamp, I never used it, so it got the boot. If I have an app on on my iphone that I haven’t used for a week, it’s off the home screen. If I don’t use it for a month, it’s gone. Call me a minimalist, but that’s just the easiest way to properly use stuff. Clearing away all the dead wood makes it easier to visualize the cabin you’re about to start building.

A lot of apps understand the idea of doing one thing ultra focused: In Instapaper, the nav bar disappears after one scroll. Scrolling = reading. And reading means reading, not looking at icons for other functions.

In the writing arena, I’d argue that no one has iAWriter beat: “As soon as you type the title bar disappears and all you see is the clean typing sheet, distraction-free, ready for your ideas to take shape…(Creating a) noise free writing experience.”

If I have to write something, I need minimal distractions, and I count buttons and menus as distractions; a reason why I lean away from Microsoft Word and towards programs like text edit, tumblr and Google docs.

Start typing to begin…

Why can’t this design philosophy be used more freely across other basic tasks on the computer? With Google’s omnibox leading browser interactions, and browsers (starting to) lead OS interactions, we’d start from there.

• The user would begin by typing a simple task, and suggestions would instantly flood in: By simply typing the letters c,a,l would have “Call Mum” populate the field. Designspiration already employs this technique on their site.

Really nothing new here, as far as omni-box stuff goes. In fact, my current workflow, is command T to create a new tab in chrome, type out a shortened phrase that Google already understands eg. “gmail” (I’m happy to type 5 letters rather than wait for suggestions) and smash enter. Boom. Email.

There’s something really liberating (as liberated as you can get when you’re simultaneosly glued to a screen and a chair), typing over the top of everything else, doing away with all the buttons, frames and containers that usually clutter our computer screen.

Many things we do on a computer all the time are slow, bloated and carry way to many features. Let’s take a look at email. When I launch gmail, 90% of the time I’m doing one of two things. Looking for bold text that tells me I have new mail “Inbox (3)” or I’m heading about 5 pixels north and clicking that red button. That’s it.

So how would a prompt based email message work? Once you’ve omniboxed your request, you’d see something like this (above). In this screen, the user has already locked into new mail mode. As soon as a task is completed the type falls back, lowers in opacity and generally gets out of the way. All that is important is the now, the current. Which is in white.

This really isn’t that left-field, Gmail now uses a simple pop up box to write new messages as of a few months ago. It sits in the corner or the browser window waiting to spring up, rather than stretch itself across the whole window.

And then?

It’s clear that this is the way speech-directed stuff is going (eg. Google Glass) “Ok Glass, film this junkie on the tram.” “What did you say c*nt!!!”

In the meantime, and while we still have unobscured faces, we’ll be using those big computers on desks. And we’ll be needing them for simple, civillian tasks like adding, messaging and planning.

We’re all pretty good at typing stuff. And we like shortcuts. My brief stint at playing Memrise (I hot streaked 92 learnt things before i dropped it from my bookmark front bench), taught me that arrow keys, the return key and numbers 1-6 are actually quicker and more intuitive than clicking everything with a mouse.

Apps stripped down to their bare necessities is a lean, mean and scary sight, and only a few less steps away from them “disappearing inside us completely.”

EDIT (31/3): This idea already exists in the form of the app Alfred. It’s free, and I’m downloading it as I type…

Photo

joshuaclement — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:28:47 +1100

Photo

joshuaclement — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:42:49 +1100

More to come- in 720p non-vine format

joshuaclement — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:58:16 +1100

More to come- in 720p non-vine format

Whenever I have the chance to touch up an image, I’ll try...

joshuaclement — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:10:00 +1100

Whenever I have the chance to touch up an image, I’ll try and use a different method, just so I’m not boring myself. Recently I’ve been hacking gradient maps to decent effect.

after I've had my afternoon coffee

joshuaclement — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:17:48 +1100

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Has anyone taken careful, attractive photos of someone making a...

joshuaclement — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:17:51 +1100

Has anyone taken careful, attractive photos of someone making a cup of instant? Because we’re reaching critical mass of Aeropress tutorials! (via Aeropress - Stumptown Coffee Roasters)

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joshuaclement — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:16:59 +1100

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