Poster Design

This is a poster design I did for the restaurant I work at

I got the inspiration from work of an artist group called 'Twisted Fifties'

I did it by using paths in photoshop

Film scans

The Morning After The Night Before

This is the end result of my Miss Aniela inspired ‘The Morning After The Night Before’ piece

I didn’t really anticipate for it to be so difficult and kind of forgot that the duvet of the bed would be hard to work with - with each picture the folds in the fabric would differ depending on where I was positioned, so it took me a few goes to work out how to get around this problem and I ended up just being really careful when posing so as not to disturb the duvet too much, although this wasn’t very easy
I think if I did this kind of thing again I’d have to put things, for example a pillow, where I would be posing in the rest of the pictures so the folds in the fabric would be as close to not moving as possible

I used my Nikon D5000 and a tripod, ISO 800, Aperture 4, Shutter Speed 1/20

ChristinaK

I like ChristinaK's work because her illustrations are delicate and whimsical result of combining traditional and digital mark making techniques. The striking artworks have subtle narratives with surreal qualities.

Courney James

James' work has a very distinctive look, by using block colours and simple shapes, it gives a pop-art kind of style, making it have a retro feel. However, the use of vector shapes, as seen in the hair of these examples, give it a modern twist. A lot of her work is inspired by nature and organic forms.

Osvaldo Gonzalez

Gonzalez's work has fantasy/supernatural genre to it, creating dark and mysterious stories. By combining elements of photograph, painting, textures and photo-manipulation,  he creates emotional scenarios of the human condition and strange dreamlike figurations. 

Pablo Pasadas

Pasadas is a digital artist and illustrator, mainly using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for his work.
His work interests me because his collages are really clever and whitty and I like the way that his work looks as if it could have been made simply with scissors and glue. This gives a kind of retro illustration look, but his style is also bizarre and surreal.

Triptych

CD Booklet

These pictures have been created by using the 'line drawing' technique.

Back Cover Final

Back Cover Drafts

Design 1:
I didn't choose this design because there wasn't enough
space for the song list. Also, I don't think that it linked
enough with the front cover, and that it was too busy. 

Design 2:
This design is slightly better as it links with the front cover
more, however, I think it is too similar, as the only thing
different is that the main front image has been replaced
by the song list.

Design 3:
I was running out of ideas for my back cover designs, so
I started looking at CDs I had at home for inspiration.
I came across "Recipe For Hate" by 'Bad Religion', and
really loved the design, so I took that inspiration and used it
for this design, which I'm really happy with, as it is simple and
fits in well with the back cover.

(back cover inspiration)

Final Front Cover

First Drafts of Front Cover

this is how i originally designed my front cover, but i didn't like the way it
was laid out as i felt there was too much space, so i tried laying it out differently 

I like the composition of this better, because it is evenly laid out, isn't too spacious, but also isn't too busy.

Picture Edit Experiments for Front

I want to try to replicate this effect

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Line Drawings

Impact of Digital Photography

The digital age has had a great impact on the world of photography, but not all factors are bad. 


For example, many people think that because anyone can have access to a camera and press a button and produce a photograph, there is no longer any skill left in photography. This is perhaps both true and false. On one hand, because photographs can be uploaded to a computer by a simple click of a mouse, the darkroom craft is dying out, and therefore producing a fine quality print requires little or no effort/skill. 
On the other hand, the fact that anyone can get their hands on a camera (thanks to Kodak in the 1950s) means that more people can be introduced to the art form - photograph is a lot more accessible. However, the "point-and-shoot" nature of today's amateur photographers, means that the old way of F-stops and Shutter Speeds is being lost to Auto-Modes and Scene-Settings, which means that although it is easier to take a professional looking photo with the correct exposure, people don't know how to experiment with in-camera settings, and instead take to editing software.


A lot of the effects that can be achieved in a darkroom can be replicated using editing software, such as Photoshop, and with video tutorials only a Google search away, it's never been easier for people to teach themselves simple tricks of the trade. This means the skill of being able to edit prints in a darkroom is becoming less of a general practice and more of a speciality for


Another advantage of being able to upload photographs quickly and effectively onto a computer, is that in the work place, photographers are able to produce results quicker - no hours spent slaving in a darkroom - therefore it is time and cost effective (no film has to be bought, photographic paper, ect.)

Fonts and Typography

Hard Copy Media

These pictures are the scanned versions of the original pieces of paper.

I made this stained paper myself to use as backgrounds in my CD booklet.

Using coffee, tea, salt, newspaper and cranberry juice

Using coffee, tea and salt

Using coffee, tea and newspaper

Using coffee, tea and salt

I wanted to go for an aged and decaying look for my backgrounds to reflect Dave McKean's work. To achieve this, I took A4 pieces of paper, screwed them up and stained them with tea (as a base). Then, for darker patches, I splashed coffee over the smoothed out paper, also adding grains of instant coffee that bled out to give 'age spots' on the paper. Once happy with the final result, I sprinkled rock salt over the wettest parts of the paper, as the salt absorbs the water, and once dry and brushed off, leaves an interesting 'tie dye' effect.




Examples of editing:

Two backgrounds overlapped, the top layer's
blending mode changed to 'Difference'

Two backgrounds overlapped, the top layer's
blending mode changed to 'Darker Colour'

All backgrounds