These vector designed posters demonstrated well how to create a effective minimal style poster to illustrate the movie. They still manage to communicate the tone and key elements that make each movie.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Minimal vector designs
These vector designed posters demonstrated well how to create a effective minimal style poster to illustrate the movie. They still manage to communicate the tone and key elements that make each movie.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Start of reading
In the next few weeks I will be starting the penguin competition book design brief, for 'one hundred years of solitude' I haven't read this book before, but hear it's a modern classic.
So to be prepared and ready to start designing for the cover, I purchased a copy of the book today to make a head start on reading it.
If, I end up not having enough time to finish the book, I will pick a key chapter or paragraph and base the front cover design on that smaller passage of text.
So to be prepared and ready to start designing for the cover, I purchased a copy of the book today to make a head start on reading it.
If, I end up not having enough time to finish the book, I will pick a key chapter or paragraph and base the front cover design on that smaller passage of text.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Little White Lies
I received an e-mail form Amber yesterday containing a link to this you tube video. It is brilliant, a glimpse of what its like to work in the studio. Lovely magazine, very inspiring! thanks Amber :)
Compositional Childs illustration
I am considering different colour combinations and how to create textured effects.
I think these images would work well on a child's book cover, they demonstrate a good consideration to composition and bright engaging colour palette.
Fictional children's literature illustration
All these illustrations capture the same sense of childhood adventure and confronting of phobias and dangers from a childs perspective. This is a main aspect of James and the giant Peach, James has to face up to his fears and set out on and adventure to get to where he wants to be (New York).
By producing these illustrations as black silhouette vectors keeps a focus on this concept.
By producing these illustrations as black silhouette vectors keeps a focus on this concept.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
About the Book and brainstorm
James and the giant Peach
Key Themes
Peach, adventure, escape, travel, Phobias, Family, Abuse, Murder, Abandonment, Insects, Violence, New York, England, Dover, Sea, Weather.
Characters and visual details
Family...
James Henery Trotter -Main character, boy
Aunt Sponge - fat
Aunt Spiker - Skinny
The insects...
Old green grass-hopper- wise, short horned, sometimes wears a top hat
Centipede- wears shoes, 42 leg, can be aggressive
Miss Spider- Dominant
Silkworm- quite, spends most the time sleeping
Glow-worm- shy, old, shines a green light
Lady bird- mothering, nine spots
Earthworm- has a phobia of birds
Other characters James meets
Stranger -old man, bald with bushy beard
cloud- men- live on clouds making weather
People of New York - greet James at the end
Peach, adventure, escape, travel, Phobias, Family, Abuse, Murder, Abandonment, Insects, Violence, New York, England, Dover, Sea, Weather.
Characters and visual details
Family...
James Henery Trotter -Main character, boy
Aunt Sponge - fat
Aunt Spiker - Skinny
The insects...
Old green grass-hopper- wise, short horned, sometimes wears a top hat
Centipede- wears shoes, 42 leg, can be aggressive
Miss Spider- Dominant
Silkworm- quite, spends most the time sleeping
Glow-worm- shy, old, shines a green light
Lady bird- mothering, nine spots
Earthworm- has a phobia of birds
Other characters James meets
Stranger -old man, bald with bushy beard
cloud- men- live on clouds making weather
People of New York - greet James at the end
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Set of books
I think these designs demonstrate a good use of composition and combination of type, illustration and layout. Each cover has been designed to the same layout, an effective way to combined them visually as a set.
As well as working as a set they also do well to illustrate the individual tone of each book.
The Secret History cover design
The cover takes imagery presented in the book, and is laid out in a manner which is intended to mirror the often cryptic narrative of the story; the cover remains eyecatching and engaging even though the design as a whole is only fully revealed when viewed from every angle, much in the same way that plot elements are hinted at within the book, before later being expanded upon and pieced together.
The Penguin logo itself serves as the only source of colour on the entire cover, and was kept that way intentionally to allow the orange to stand out, as the novel notes that orange is the colour representative of insanity (another theme touched on by the author).
The Penguin logo itself serves as the only source of colour on the entire cover, and was kept that way intentionally to allow the orange to stand out, as the novel notes that orange is the colour representative of insanity (another theme touched on by the author).
Type as image lead book cover design
"These are a typographic series of book cover re-designs. The covers are free of imagery to portray a synopsis of each book through the type of the title. The books, “The Devil Knows You’re Dead” by Lawrence Block, “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, and “Nausea” by Jean-Paul Sartre were redesigned. All subheadings and block texts are set in Minion Pro."
Childrens book illustration by Amy Tollafield
The Amulet in the Sand
Author Alex Herring
Time slip novel for children aged 12+
The Dragon's Tooth
Author Jocelyn Lambley
Novel set in the 1100's (Norman times) for children 12+
A website header for a travel site. This illustration captures the fun and adventure of world travel with a punchy color scheme and scenery from different regions of the globe.
Forest Typography
10 drawings, each done with ink (0.1 size staedtler pigment) on a 10x 10 square of vellum over fawn stonehenge paper.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)