2D-3D-2D Research for image festival t-shirt

Some nice little booklets here used for a festival promotion. 

I am also proposing to create a small zeen or booklet for the festival too. 

2D-3D-2D Research for festival t-shirt

Also looking at previous festival posters that i like, i love the colour in these illustration collages...

2D-3D-2D , Festival t-shirt Research

looking at pieces of collage design for inspiration, i am wanting to create something to photograph, which i can then use to create collage images for the t-shirt design. 

Glasto

Some interesting visuals - TYPE AS IMAGE - 30-2D-3D
I am considering taking a type as image route for my glastonbury t-shirt designs.
I need to start researching into concepts for a festival inspired theme so i can start to play with some 3D visuals.

UPLIFT MAG :: IMAGE

An events poster created for Uplift Magazine promoting womans power and rights. 

Love the collage and bold type, the burst of colours is so vibrant and satisfying through the white. 

GUY LARAMEE :: IMAGE

 Guy Laramée is an extremely unique and deep theater writer and director. He also delves in contemporary music composition, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting, and literature. He has received more than 30 arts grants His work has been displayed in many countries around the world including The United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Latin America.

Below are some mind blowing book sculptures used in one of his recent projects about the Great Wall. 

The time and skills that have been put into these are amazing! 

The concept of this piece of work is in a paragraph at the bottom of this post, and it is pretty hard to understand or re-write. 

But i definitely thought that these amazing sculptures deserved a post in my research for my Image module especially as i have been working with paper a lot.  

Having recently overthrown the American Empire in the 23rd century, the Chinese Empire set out to chronicle the history of the Great Panics during the 21st and 22nd centuries.

This Herculean undertaking resulted in a historiographical masterwork entitled, The Great Wall. Comprising 100 volumes, this encyclopaedia derives its name from The Great Wall of America, a monumental project to build an impregnable wall around the United States of America so as to protect this land from barbarian invasions. 150 years in the making, this wall ultimately isolated Americans from the rest of the world while sapping the country’s remaining cultural and natural resources. It also undermined the American people’s confidence in systematized hedonism, thus hastening the fall of the American Empire. As we now know this paved the way for China to invade American territory.

The Chinese Empire later ordered a group of scribes to write The Great Wall series. In the course of their duties they familiarized themselves with the libraries of the former USA. Through a strange twist of fate they thereby discovered the ancient sources of their own civilization which the new Middle Kingdom had long ago removed from its libraries. In the end this contact, primarily with Taoism and Chan (Zen) Buddhism, sowed the seeds of the Chinese Empire’s demise.

Guy Laramée
Translated by Professor Norman Cornett, historian

Cafe branding :: D&AD :: Image

 Some more photography inspired by trees and woodland environments. 

Interesting how the detailed, delicate logo and type over the detailed photography works?

Personally i would choose a bolder font , but i love the white font over photography!

A consideration for my poster.

Lumen Photography :: D&AD :: Image

Some amazingly inspiring photography of trees in snow by Lumen.

So simple , two elements , snow and trees , put together make such an appealing image!

The detail in the trees comes out agains the snow , beautiful! 

I love how the colour contrasts and makes the trees look as though they have been stuck onto a white background , they almost look illustrated! 

I like how the trees look out of their own environment , this imagery would look luscious with some nice type over it!

Paperluxe :: Image

The inspiration for my bookfair is in this entire video!!!          

                                

Flickr in 24 hours :: D&AD :: Image

This installation by Erik Kessels is on show as part of an exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam that looks at the future of photography. It features print-outs of all the images uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period…

As you might imagine, this results in a lot of images, that fill the gallery space in an avalanche of photos. “We’re exposed to an overload of images nowadays,” says Kessels. “This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualise the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”

Digital Collage

Love these by carl kleiner , digital collages of shapes an colour on basic backgrounds. 

Book Fair :: Image

Here are a few artists and designers i found whilst browsing through the stores at the book fair in leeds. 

There was some very interesting work there 

Image :: Research

Some work by .... an artist who caught my attention at the book fair 

Mini eco :: 3 dimensional shapes :: Image

  Mini eco is a site that i found and it is just up my street!The blog is run by a full time mum with a passion for crafts and sharing them on the web.

                       

The shapes include made include 

Cubs
Icosahedrons
Tetrahedrons
Octahedrons
Dodecahedrons

So now its Happy chopping/folding/sticking for me!!

MODERN WRAPPING PAPER / GRAFIKA

I've been looking at UK-based stationery design shops and found 1973 Ltd. They have lots of interesting colourful products and produce alot of stationary , cards , papers etc. This is their Grafika wrapping paper line, they also recently announced a series of coordinating greeting cards,postcards, and notebooks.