Final Book Cover

This is my final book cover. Photoshop tested my patience to the limit on this piece. Trying to make the "spark" spark became my one and only mission for days on end...
This is the result :)

Ranking Continued....

 After the week of research, i decided to stay with the theme of good vs evil as the theme of my concept for the book cover of the Crucible.

Here are my priliminary ideas and concepts..

In the Crucible, it is one girl who sparks off all the evil. She manipulates the others, the "good, wholesome" villagers. This is where i got the idea for the matches. I neede d it to show a spark of a match. This seemed near impossible.

My secong concept was to show the cracks in the foundation. The town of Salem seemed to be a solid community with no evil. That was until Abigail Williams rebelled and destructed the scene by showing the truth of the salem villagers.

My third idea was to turn something known for its good reputation and turn it evil. I wanted to turn the image of a cross upside down as if to say religion has fallen which it does in the play.

However, I was soon told that this is a sign for St Peter and so it doesnt make much sense. This was my favourite idea until this piece of information. Murphy's Law I suppose.

Graphics Ranking!

Ranking has officially started. Little bit nerve racking but hopefully it'll all work out:)
The brief was to read, interpret and synopsis a novel or short story.

I chose The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Based in Salem, Massachusetts the play is about the Salem With Trials that took place in the late 17th Century. The play has many themes throughout, the most evident one being the battle between good and evil.

Here are some of the slides from my presentation that will be given on Friday morning.

(Nobody says "John Proctor" like Daniel Day Lewis!)

The late 17th Century was a very religious time and the Puritans were no exception. They lived by strict harsh rules, for example entertainment such as music or dancing was strictly forbidden.

This is 1 of 2 slides for visualizing the theme. I choses these to try show the effect evil has one the good, For example, the crying women in the first image shows the horror on the faces as they watch upon something cruel.

I decided to show the mood of the time through textures. I was trying to make it look almost mono- colour to reflect the life they lived with browns and tan colours. At the time most things would've been done by hand such as weaving or cutting lumber.

This presentation week is only the start of our next project. Let's see how that goes :)

Discipline#3: Fashion Design

For this project we were asked to pick either a living or non living thing to base our project on. We were asked to draw our chosen images and to pull out the shapes from each.
Example of finding shapes:

Chosen shapes:

Transforming the body:

Colour Story boards:

New shapes from maniquin:

Final Collection:

Discipline#2: Visual Communications

For this block, We were each given a word. My word was Hunters. Our first project was to develop ways to display this word using typography only. This was definitely a challenge.


My first idea was to do with vampires and the hunter that they go on however as the development went on it turned out more to do with self harm and hunting yourself than hunting other people.

My second idea was to make the word out of meat. I photographed it instead of actually bringing in the rashers in fear of them going rotten over night.

My final idea was to do with bargain hunters as it is what i personally hunt for. I used sale signs to cover the letters in a billboard style

The second week, we were asked to make 2 illustrations for our word. 

***main idea is unable to upload at the moment but i will try again later***

this idea showed the mugshots of 3 students each on the prowl for a man or woman. I thought this was a humourous way of showing the modern hunter

My second idea was to show an image of a hunter leaving its imprints ie. blood on their hands.  

Discipline#1: Print

My first discipline was Print. I chose print because I wanted to learn more about the processes involved in the area, little did I know that it was a lot harder than it looked. 

The brief was to explore an area of space. I decided to carry on with my first semester project and focus on nature. I used mostly monoprint in my pieces. At first I wanted to go the opposite to what you see, as in make the 3D layers of nature 2D, try to flatten them out.

Here is one example:

I really enjoyed the process of the following pieces. Everytime you touched the sheet an imprint was made. This made it both difficult and fun.

This was an experiment using white spirits.  like the shape it made and the black and white mono colour.

As a separate project, we were asked to go down to Josephs Street and take one photo and one photo only.