MA Visual Communication: Online Journal

PP&M: Blog entry  7

Today  I continued working on the idea of creating a book from the text. Going on from my experiments yesterday, I had to type the text into photoshop as the PDF looked a bit rubbish really. Once i got the text sorted, I just started playing, thinking of images to go alongside each page of text.

For the first page, I wanted to try and create a hexagonal universe ( I had a couple attempts early on in the project at trying to draw the library itself, but that all went to hell to be honest...). After lots of time playing with brushes and opacity, this is what I came up with;

Experimentation: the Hexagonal Universe

Page 1 of text and image of the Hexagonal Universe

Having earlier sorted out the text for the book, I then did another quick mock up of the page and image together.

Also, I have yet to decide on colour or black and white? I think I'm leaning towards black and white, to fit with the printed text. If I do use colour it would be minimal flash of colour - like my image of the goldfinch (in Blog entry 6) or this image I did the other day thinking of page 2 of the text;

Image taken from sketchbook

Here I chose to use a  Cardinal, not so much for it's symbolic meaning, rather it's colour, referring to the one red book in the library that supposedly has mystical powers.

Photos of experimentation with Cutting pages of the text.

Above are some of the other images using the pages of the text. I need to do some more research into paper art and book art to get some more ideas of different ways to do this...