1. Write an explanation of your brief - what did you have to do? How did you come up with the ideas for this project? Write about the creative 'journey' of the project - how did the project and ideas evolve from start to finish through experimentation and research?
We first started analysing illustration artists and creating observational drawings inspired by their style of work, the artists we looked at were Georgina Luck and Matthew Midgley had the completion of dark fine liners added to their work, Luck using more vibrant colours in her work and a technique which is not precise such as the splatters of ink to her work. Natsko Seki includes hand drawn backgrounds with image cut outs to create a landscape. The magazine page layout I did for the Illustration artists included images of their work, the brush stroke outlines I did around the different sections was to represent illustration.Hennrik Bonnieveir Shoot
We then created to different photo shoots in a group inspired by Andrea Bricco and Hennrik Bonnevier, Briccos work had hand drawn backgrounds relating to a certain object in her photo added she was inspired by food which is why most of her work had plates of food included with a landscape created using food. Bonnevier created thought out compositions and layout in his photos using objects. We created out own photo shoot inspired by Briccos work using cosmetic products and using some of them to draw in the background. The Bonnevier shoot we used the same cosmetic products but having a plain background and rearranging the objects.
The different adverts we analysed started to give me an idea of how to set out my advert design, the composition I had to think about and what size and type of font I wanted to use. The first advert I designed was lacking colour and creativity so I designed a new advert using Kate Moross and Stephen Sprouse as inspiration they both had a strong element of colour and graffiti like creation, which is what I was trying to convey in my advert. I created the background in Photoshop using the Brush Tool.
OLD ADVERT DESIGN
FINAL ADVERT DESIGN
The feature spread I decided to do about fashion different outfits, I developed a mind map of different magazines layouts as inspiration, a mood board and a photo shoot I took photos of a model wearing different outfits but cropped her head out and instead added a robot head. I found an advert in a magazine with drawings of people with animal heads, instead of drawing I used actual photos of someone and edited on Photoshop to add the ROBO head designs which I did using a thin Brush Tool size.
3. Who inspired your final outcomes? - You MUST talk about who has inspired your work - include images and links where possible.
For most of my pages in my magazine I found Kate Moross and Stepen Sprouse work most inspiration and related to my work best, mainly my Advert and Front cover. Their use of various colours and dark outlines was attractive and worked well in making the pages stand out. My feature spread was inspired by a page layout in a arts magazine about design which I thought worked well with my Fashion feature spread.
For most of my pages in my magazine I found Kate Moross and Stepen Sprouse work most inspiration and related to my work best, mainly my Advert and Front cover. Their use of various colours and dark outlines was attractive and worked well in making the pages stand out. My feature spread was inspired by a page layout in a arts magazine about design which I thought worked well with my Fashion feature spread.
4. What do you think you have done well? What has worked? Are you happy with your final outcomes?
I think my front cover works well its simple but stands out also the colours in the photo are attractive. Also my feature spread I think works well with the Fashion intention presentation and how I used the ROBO heads to represent the outfits. I'm not pleased with my final outcome because I think I could of experimented more with the layouts and used different compositions to show more creativity.
I think my front cover works well its simple but stands out also the colours in the photo are attractive. Also my feature spread I think works well with the Fashion intention presentation and how I used the ROBO heads to represent the outfits. I'm not pleased with my final outcome because I think I could of experimented more with the layouts and used different compositions to show more creativity.
5. What do you think you could have improved in your final outcome? - you need to talk about something, nobody is perfect!
I could improve on the way I lay out my pages and use other magazine spreads as inspiration to have an idea of what kind of theme I'm going for, for example my Illustration page the font and background I could of used my own illustrations as background that relate to their work.
I could improve on the way I lay out my pages and use other magazine spreads as inspiration to have an idea of what kind of theme I'm going for, for example my Illustration page the font and background I could of used my own illustrations as background that relate to their work.
6. Conclusion - overall how did you find the project? Would you like to use any of the skills or techniques in the future?
Overall I am satisfied with how my final outcome came out, some of the techniques I used on Photoshop to edit photos I will try to experiment with and use again. In the future I may try to analyse other magazines and page layouts to create a better and more creative magazine.
Overall I am satisfied with how my final outcome came out, some of the techniques I used on Photoshop to edit photos I will try to experiment with and use again. In the future I may try to analyse other magazines and page layouts to create a better and more creative magazine.
