Beautifully Unhinged Project - Exposure Histograms

over exposed

correct exposed

under exposed

 

For this we had to show off what was over exposed, under exposed and correctly exposed. The histograms would show how much light is in the pics.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

REUSE - Using the same things as last time but differently

REDUCE - Use a less amount of materials when making a product

RECYCLE - Use things that can be recycled after use like paper or glass

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Materials & Equipment

Materials/Resources:

Internet Explorer - this was useful because I got inspiration and access to the internet helped in getting a lot of my work done

Photoshop - this was useful because I simply couldn't properly make a book cover any other way

Magazines - these were useful because I used pictures from magazines for my collage, which I'd end up using for one of my covers

Equipment:
Nikon DX - made the pics look great

Lights - good lighting is good for the pics

Softbox - softer shadow

Graphics Pens - inspired ideas like contour line drawings and blind drawings

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Laetitia Devernay

Laetitia Devernay is an illustrator known for her book 'The Conductor'. Based on reviews it is well written and in my opinion, it is well illustrated. In the book there are birds and trees with patterns inside, which is very inspiring for my 'Beautifully Unhinged' project.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Michelle Schwartzbauer

Michelle Schwartzbauer is a freelance illustrator and designer. I acknowledge the fact that she's talented but most of her work looks like things that you'd see in children's books (she has done books after all) which doesn't mean it's bad but just not what I like. I have to admit that her some of her ideas are clever though, like the Grumpy Cat piece which made me laugh.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Julie Verhoeven

Julie Verhoeven works as an artist and an illustrator but is known for working in fashion mostly. She has had exhibitions at notably Riflemaker and Hayward Gallery, and has done countless solo and group shows in the last 10 years of all her work. My opinion of her work is that it is random but also very interesting. I like her style in illustration as the drawings are kind of scruffy but detail is kept on the faces for example, it reminds me of blind drawing in a way.

Favourite Graphic Designer - Tim Marrs

My favourite graphic designer is Tim Marrs, because out of all the artists we have done research on in the previous projects, I think his is the most innovative and exciting (Stina Persson was a very close second though). I think his work is interesting because of the combination of techniques he uses. His work is a fusion of drawings, photography, screen-printing, Photoshop, hand lettering and graffiti. He also uses a digital camera and a scanner to import his sketchbook work into his finished artwork. Together this creates a mixed media collage of textured, colourful, digital artwork. His technique is one of the most inspirational in modern illustration and seems to be drawn from American pop culture and pop art. After graduating from Humberside University, he went on to gain a Master of Arts (MA) at Central Saint Martin's London in 1999. His career then took off and is still going strong after 10 years. Tim Marrs is a graphic designer who does promotional artwork and designs for various clients, as well as privately commisioned pieces. Clients include Asics NYC marathon, Orion Publishing, Reebok, kswiss, Ogilvy and Mather, Saatchi and Saatchi, Geffen records, Publicis & Hal Riney, and Brand Jordan. However, his most recognisable work is probably for the Nike campaign featuring basketball legend Michael Jordan. Tim Marrs is a member of the Black Convoy, this is an illusive art collective that brings together the UK's most radical, freelance illustrators under one roof. His latest piece of work was a commission for the Financial Times property page in February 2012 entitled 'The House I Fell In Love With Got Sold To Someone Else'. It's hard to choose my favourite Tim Marrs piece but it would probably be the Pepsi Max can design. Because it's gritty but at the same time cool, and it kind of looks like it's targeting the youth market with it's clever use of the typical Tim Marrs style artwork, because of it's recognisable use of classic American cars which feature quite heavily in his other work. In this piece, he also incorporates petrol head paraphernalia (speedometers, car speakers, tyres and dashboard dials) expanding on the fast cars theme. He mostly kept to the Pepsi colour pallet of red, white and blue, incorporating the hue/saturation and stamp effects. However in the artwork for the background he has introduced grey and used darker shades of blue and black, creating a more urban, edgy, cool feel. The use of American style cars in this piece portray a slick, street style look which would appeal to the target audience of 16-25 year olds. During his career, Tim Marrs has won several awards from American Illustration, The Assosciation of Illustration and The Best Of British Illustration. Although he is represented by the New York-based creative artist management agency, he still lives a relatively quiet life in the South Coast seaside resort of Hastings continuing to create inspirational and influential art.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Form & Function

The form of the book is that it has a front cover, back cover, a spine, and pages. The function of the book is to have the covers protect to pages and also to show of it's title and content (like a DVD or CD). The spine is there because of a process called bookbinding, which is to attach the cover and pages together. The purpose is to make the audience buy the book or learn information.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Typography Book Cover

This is my typography book cover. For this I used my edited 'Beautifully Unhinged' logo experiment where I warped it. I had this for 'Annelies Cornelius' too, where I put flowers in the letters but I didn't warp it because I wanted the 'Beautifully Unhinged' writing to be the best bit. I felt that when making this, it was simple but use of the edited text made the cover impressive, I felt that colours wouldn't make this as good.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Same Sex Relationship Book Cover

Same sex

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Far East Book Cover

For this we had to make a far east book cover in the style of Chinese, Japanese or Indian. I immediately chose Japanese because I felt that I could come up with the most ideas for that one. I created a moodboard full of Japanese book covers and got inspiration from a couple of them for the layout. I already decided that the Rising Sun flag would be great and I thought it would be good to translate 'Beautifully Unhinged' and 'Annelies Cornelius' into Japanese characters. Unfortunately Beautifully Unhinged couldn't be translated but instead it would be changed to 'Beautiful Insanity' which is close but probably not good enough so I kept it English and chose an amazing Japanese style font. 'Cornelius' could be translated though so I included that on the cover. The layout that I got inspired from also had a photo of someone and a few shapes in different colours, however I saw another book cover that had a plant on so I preferred to use that rather than the shapes but I decided to include the photo. The photo I used was supposed to be red & black but for some reason Photoshop wouldn't let it be black, which is irritating. The reason why I decided on these colours is to keep with the Japanese flag colour scheme.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Illusion Book Cover

This is my illusion cover that's supposed to look like a face looking two ways, so I fitted the right facial features in with the outline. I used a negative effect to make it more interesting.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Contour Line Drawing Book Cover

I like this because it's simple and I feel like a did a good job on the drawing. I chose a generic font because I wanted the drawing to be the best looking part of the cover.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Collage Book Cover

I was impressed with how this turned out because I didn't make many creative looking, original collages however this one looked good and improved when it was edited. By making it black and white, I kind of made it look like the picture of the person blends in with background, as basically the person is wearing 3D glasses which has a pattern on it and the background has leaves and together it has a trippy feel.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Controversial Book Covers

Surely this is controversial, a girl being hanged. Death is one of the key themes for the book so I thought this picture would be ideal. I made it black and white and gave it a 'grainy' effect to give it a darker feel.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Blind Drawings Book Covers

These are blind drawings, where we weren't allowed to look at the paper or take our pen off anytime. I was impressed with these two the most because they were the closest that looked like the original pictures. I was told it looks very 'Picassoey' which is good.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Illustration Book Covers

For this we had to follow a tutorial to make the pictures look like sketched drawings.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Portraits

For this, we took photos of our subject like a portrait. I thought this was good because it gave me many ideas for a book cover. We originally we had to do the idea where the girl closes her eyes and I was going to choose a long exposure so it would make her eyes look like theres no pupils (white & scary) but the camera decided to mess about that day and I ended up with these two photos which I'm still happy about because I had ideas to use them, I think I used them for about 2 or 3 covers.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Screens

standing pressed against the screen, you can see the detail of his face

standing slightly away from the screen, not as good effect

standing far away from the screen to create a shadow effect

standing closer but not far enough to create a bigger shadow effect

For this, we used screens and plastic gels and got the subject to stand behind it. I preferred using the screens because the pics of the gels didn't come out very well. The shadow appeared bigger depending on how far the subject stood. I could improve by using a screen and a gel, I'd have the good pic of the face being pressed with colour, something like red would suit it. The shower scene from 'Psycho' was the inspiration for this.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Experimental

Camera shake, to make the picture blurred.

This is an abstract image with the shutter speed set to 1/4 where I zoomed and rotated the camera to create this effect.  

For this pan technique, I followed the subject and used a slow shutter speed (1/4) before of the lower light.

For this pan technique, I used a shutter speed around 1/30 because it was outdoors where there was light

                                    

For this deliberate movement blur, I had to have a slow shutter speed during exposure.

To get this 'ghost' picture, I had to choose a long exposure of 4 seconds. Basically the subject moved right before exposure.

For this freezing motion picture, a fast shutter speed is needed (1/250)

This was taken in the dark room where someone pointed a torch at the camera and did 'light writing', 10 seconds is needed for exposure.

For this lesson we had to do different experiments. My favourite was the light painting but the freezing motion was a close second. The reason why I liked the light painting is because it's very creative and could be used for a lot of things, especially for the 'Beautifully Unhinged' cover. I also liked the freezing motion pic because it's just brilliant and I could get ALL the detail just like that, by using a faster shutter speed I can have the picture looking crisp.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Book Cover Inspired By Shape and Pattern

For this idea, I did a pattern of spiders as it fits well with the themes in 'Beautifully Unhinged'.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Illusion

This is our illusion experiment. I had the outline of half a face then I had to put my photos underneath to give the illusion that they are looking the other way, and make sure that the facial features lined up with the outline.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Typography Experiment

For this experiment, I took photos of plants and then in Photoshop I typed 'Beautifully Unhinged' in Arial font, after this I edited the photo of the plants into my font. After doing this I felt that the plants gave my font a splatter or shatter effect.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - Moodboard

Moodboard of Penguin book covers to get inspiration for the 'Beautifully Unhinged' cover.

Beautifully Unhinged Project - 5 Penguin Book Cover Designs

For this design, I reversed the colours of the headers and included my first picture with the drawing effect and used the same colour as one of the headers to keep with the colour scheme.

This cover was inspired by the Penguin book 'Scooter', as I had layered the same photo on top of each other with two of them being completely coloured.

This cover was inspired by the book 'Take A Girl Like You' which had the usual orange header(s) but with patterns, so I got the idea to do spiders to fill the page, which a couple layered on top coloured differently to stand out.

Very simple design, a typical Penguin book cover.

For this, I kept the layout the same pretty much and with a picture added. I used an effect that made it look like a drawing.