[Back to school] Opening title for news program

The World Today / L1 opening title from Balázs Háfra on Vimeo.

My first ever attempt at title animation.

Smoking Santa from 2005

I volunteered to design a poster for a mid-term party organised by a couple of daring students of the nearby university back in 2005. I would probably take a bolder approach today to depicting Santa Claus persuing unusual pleasures, but anyway, it came out nice and most of all, my clients were satisfied.

The final poster out on the streets, rain-washed:

Sunday afternoon

Digital sketch.

[Back to school] Fake postcard

From Fake postcard

This was a recent art school project: create a fake foreign postcard using digitally unaltered photos taken in your home area. It had to be sent in by mail, too.

I got Vietnam, which was a tricky one since it's so very different from Central Europe. The closest link I could find was communist/industrial Vietnam.

We had 3 weeks to complete the project but I did it really quickly to leave ample time for printing and postal delivery. So I took the pictures in one afternoon within 2 kms of where I live and put the card together overnight.

It was printed on 250 g Super Gloss paper.

The arrangement on the front was inspired by the ornaments on one of the gates of the university in Hanoi. The little oriental character on the back was traced from an original piece of Vietnamese folk art I found on Flickr.

From Fake postcard

The sign on the front is the name of some traditional Vietnamese dish that translates to "Steamed dog's meat", it's repeated on the back side and the additional line is a Vietnamese proverb saying "Eat as [little as] a cat". I think.

Click to see the original photos and some others of sort-of-colonial/oriental-looking houses that were not used in the end.

From Fake postcard

Beverage dealer's website

Website for a beverage store & distillery whose layout I designed while working full-time for Profartis earlier this year. It went online in August and was one of the first websites to be featured at Web Design Galéria, a new Hungarian web design inspiration gallery.

More images below.

Budapest transportation icons

Power up

From Budapest 2008

V4 vs V4

If you're putting this much effort into trying to make a website look like another website AND appear very different at the same time you might as well start from scratch ;)

Left: Screenshots of a conference microsite I designed in 2006.
Right: Screenshots of a conference microsite designed by someone else in 2009.

Elektromosfutes.hu logo

Logo for the website of a company offering electric heating systems. Made for Profartis Design a couple of months ago.

Our work featured at cssfairy.com

Our Roma research microsite was featured at cssfairy.com in April. (I haven't noticed it until recently.) Thanks to Ádám Paller (programming).