Vis Com Ranking Project

Back in graphics now for ranking and couldn't be happier, i'm getting used to chomping on fags and throwing back the coffee while i work late into the night and loving every minute. The brief is really interesting, i find myself still thinking about ideas when i do eventually get the head down at night and everyday my peers in the room are putting up their own challenge to push the boat out even more. I am absolutely competitive and i think if we are going out into this big bad world and with the state of the economies at the moment it's gonna be pretty much dog eat dog and i might as well instill that persona in to my mind now at the beggining of my carreer.
Anyway our breif is to redesign a novel cover of our choice, i chose Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. The reason i picked this as my choice is not only because it's my favourite book (even tho Tom Hanks ruined it for me!!) but there is so much scope when it comes down to idea's : Old v New; Faith v Fact; Religion v Science etc, also there's a typographical element in the novel that can be explored with the ambigrams that are branded into the cardinals chests before their deaths. So i tried to pick something that i was passionate about and boxed clever about how far i could take it.
We have a ten slide presentation to prepare for Friday which i just completed and i am happy with it because it is retro, ultra-modern and it is individual to me. I'm hoping i can embed the presentation online here but if not i'll post a link.

Angels & Demons on Prezi

So this week we got on to the design stage of our book design, and when you think it's gonna be the easy part it never is, basically the whole core of my book revolves around the destruction of the church by means of a scientific discovery called antimatter, so i thought i'd play on this core element and try to fuse both elements in the cover to make the familiar religious relics unfamiliar. I also tried explored the use of opposing colors and the introduction of elements to represent nature and the four basic elements of science. I have gotten no feedback as of yet so i'll post the book concepts and update then when i have a clearer direction in which i'm taking my design.

Electives

I have been neglective of my blog so far this semester but with the electives done and now in ranking it was definitly time i updated, i am not going to go into too much detail on the elective projects but i will post images of my work

The First of my electives was Graphics and starting the year i was pretty adamant that i was going to be a painter but as faith would have it, i went and fell in love with design all over again. i think the atmosphere and the creative cogs getting a chance to run riot just sparked something in me that i was missing in the first semester. we were given a word and asked to approach the design of the word both typographically and illustrativly. Here are my resposnses to the brief.

This was focusing around the idea of the death of the writter letter.

This image was an attempt to make the letter more modern and a little more appealing.

This is my illustration to show how technology has stamped out the written letter.

This was my favourite piece and probably the most effective, it's an eye with an origional letter from President Licoln to a mother whos son was killed in WWI, i added the tear to give the sense that the letter was crying ink as supposed to a tear, in hindsight a black tear would've worked better.



Painting was my next elective and if i'm being completely honest it was two weeks which i absolutely couldn't wait for, but once in the door i can't recall ten minutes of it that i actually enjoyed, i plugged away at it and didn't produce anything close to my best work but it's hard to get passionate about staring at an installation for two weeks.

Print then was my final elective which i really enjoyed, and if i didn't love the graphics elective so much i would have had a hard choice to make, i studied past masters concept drawings of people and their study of the human figure, so with that in mind i decided i would do a study of different parts of my own body.