For the last brief of the semester, it's all about working much more productively in a shorter time frame, meaning we have to make decisions and come to conclusions much quicker than what we're probably used to. We had the option of 9 different tasks which were portraits, t shirt designs, posters about the rules of illustration, kickstart a kickstarter, beer can design, cereal box design, editorial, vignettes, or an ABC book. I was initially drawn to the portrait task, beer can design as this would give me good practice with typography, and also the ABC book I thought would be fun.
PORTRAITS:
For this task we were provided with an instagram account with a variety of different profiles, but I didn't like the look of them and I wanted images with more context, so I found a different instagram account which had a series called '#railfanseries' which photographed autistic children who loved trains and transmit and were often photographed travelling or watching trains. I thought this would suit my work better and give me a bit more to work with. https://www.instagram.com/travishuggett/?hl=en I will add below a variety of the images from his account.
The images are mainly very dull in terms of light and colour, and I tend to work with brighter colours so my plan was to illustrate these with much more pattern and colour.
Development, initial sketches, colour ideas:
With feedback from Dwayne, we discussed how some of the patterns I've included look a bit too digital and the hand-rendered mark making works more cohesively with my stitched elements so this is something to note and develop moving forward.
Final series:
COCKTAIL CAN DESIGNS:
I liked the idea of creating cocktail can designs as these are more fruity and exotic, which suits my bright colour palette and patterns, and since I'm a fan of 60s hippie aesthetic, I thought that would be good inspiration for my can designs. I have a pinterest board about this era which I will link below, and I'll add some inspiration for can design. This also gives me the chance to experiment with typography as this is something I need some practice with.
Initial sketches, development, colour:
Patterns:
Fillmore posters research:
Development:
Here I was mainly looking at composition and colour and then mocking up my ideas onto cans throughout. Regarding the text, I used a 60s font and used this to figure out placement and colour but I plan to hand render the text for all cans in the individual format.
I am happy with where this is going and how the cans look together, however I think I need to alter the composition of the beer can with the van needs changing so that the van is face on as I think this would stand out better on the shelf. I also still need to finalise the text composition using my hand rendered font for each can.
Typography/font making:
Using adobe illustrator I played around with fitting texts into shapes as seen in 60s film posters, I thought this looked really cool and I plan to hand render my own font and use that within this format.
Hand-rendered font, experimenting with textures to provide embroidered appearance:
After playing around with my 60s fabric textured font, and a font which looks like a stitch outline, I looked at how this would look on the can.
Final series:
I was really happy with the text for the cans and I think it fit really well with the 60s hippie theme. I think the cans look good as a series and are fun bright and colourful which was what I was aiming for.
THE ABC BOOK:
For this brief we are tasked with producing 3 sample pages for our book, using the first 3 letters of the alphabet. We are to present A as a single right-handed page, and B&C are to be presented as a double page spread. I really liked this idea of this brief, I see so many of these books at the minute with 2 young nephews, so I really liked the idea of recreating my own. Our book must have an underlying theme to ensure each page doesn't appear like a random selection so I had a few ideas, I liked the idea of doing cities, or maybe female music icons.
Initial ideas:
My initial thoughts for my ABC book were cities - Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen/Cairo, and for female music icons my plan was Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Cher. I thought it would be interesting to have a square format book, with each page having the feel of an album cover to tie in with the theme of the book. Typically aimed at children, I want to create an abc book that adults can resonate with so I thought female music icons would be a good subject.
A - Amy Winehouse
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B - Britney Spears
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C - Cher
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