I wanted to work on another book design project, I wanted to spend just a week on this project. I chose to work on designing a set of Jules Verne covers. The only guides I set myself was to use Black, White and one other contrasting colour and that they had to work as a set. Because the books are similar but differnet in nature I wanted the covers and set design to reflect this. I designed them within a week just to set myself a target as I would have in the industry.

Identity

This is a drawing that I scanned in, I am going to manipulate this to generate a brand logo for myself. The Jokers head on the left will be used for certain promotions such as buisness cards and compliment slips. I think this will have to be simplified to work at a small size such as a buisness card.

This magazine article I designed was something I wanted to incorporate in my portfolio, This was one of my first experiments with Indesign. I wanted to document something in a similar style to grakik magazine. I wanted to keep it simple and brief. I chose to use an Artist that I had recently discoverd named Michelle Caplan.

After working on the a controversal project I found it best to change direction before it was marked to tone done the controversal elements of my design, only by truly looking deep within the image could a person realy see the petrifying aspects of the design and the insanity and petrification becomes clear.

Older work

These are designs that I was working on for a Faber & Faber brief, I had to design covers for a set of books, I enjoyed working with them. They looked alot beter on glossy stock.

Recent Work

Havent added any new work for a while, I sort of put this blog to the back of my mind. I hope you can see some of my developing within my work.

This is some work that i am working on at the moment, i am looking into conveying silence. I am very interested in how an image holds power.

I must say working with this image of Myra Hindley has made me silent with different emotions.

Future Shock- Book Front Cover, Set Design

This brief had several different sets of books to design. I chose the future shock set due to style in which I had planned to design these covers. I worked through research for the very prestigious books and began designing the covers using a collage method, working on large scale and scanning certain sections of my collages to make the designs more visualy interesting.

Each design had to fit next to the other three designs. I wanted to have similarities but overall seem quite different as each book is. I wanted the buyer to distinguish the difference between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

This was a new and better way of working for me and I am loking forward to using this method time and time again. I feel the more I use this method the more my work could develop.