I don’t know anything about this artist but i think this is great, a couple of lovely warm Gerald Scarfe-esk illustrations, i like the way that some parts of the figures are exaggerated, particularly the tiny ankles of the first figure that join onto his enormous pointy feet…
(via bittersweetart)
The Tree Book by Cecilia Levy
This is lush. A nicely illustratrated and tactile book on trees. the illustrations are sort of childlike and quaint. A little bit remeniscent of Goreys macabre drawings that often uses deep blacks, dotted or dashed lines for shading and black spaces. great stuff.
How does a country brand itself? Until recently, it’s not something I’d ever given much thought to. But it was only recently I was made aware that Peru’s got itself a shiny new brand.
Comparing these before and after images, I’d have to say they’ve done an amazing job….
(Source: matttamsdesign)
This is the cover and back of the interview booklet i made for Marian Bantjes based on an interview from Typeradio. For the front i used an extremely cropped version of an already cropped set of images i use for the first page of interview transcript inside the book. I used an endearing quote as the title of the book that i liked from the interview and set it in a similar colour with the opacity set back somewhat to match the colour of the images.
On the back cover i simply put “Marian Bantjes” another quote found in the interview. In the same set of fonts that i had used on the spreads inside. I had considered using a type radio logo that i had edited to be in a similar style but decided that it made the back too busy.
Andrew Collett is a very talented landscape photographer living in Canada who’s work includes many coastlines and bodies of water which happens to be the same thing that i am looking at and in the same country that Marian Banjtes lives. The two that i have selected above are of a very washed back hue which is something that i would like to achieve.
Ger Dekkers Photography is very similar to the style that i would like to achieve myself. His collections are small sets of multiple photographs of places photographed from different angles and positions. He also tightly crops these photographs to isolate fine points within them. Dekkers mainly works in black and white or single hue which is a stylistic choice that i don’t see working as well with my own design, but one that i will play around with undoubtedly.
This is a great photographer i found called Franco Fontana who’s collections mainly consist of colourful highly saturated landscapes that often include very geometric lines combines with very natural and organic subject matter. This is a style that i have been considering very closely when selecting the photography i am using in my Marian Bantjes interview design.
Wayne Bradbury is an Australian photographer who’s photographs consist of hyperrealistic and vivid photographs of the landscapes that he has grow up around. I was drawn to his collections mainly because he takes a lot of coastal photographs in beautiful locations but also because he manages to create a sense of isolation in each of these fantastically. Both off which i can use as inspirational reference points for my project.
