Olympics publication test piece

My publication will be in square pages and I've decided to go for a retro feel.

The main image will be black and white line drawing, and the word 'young' will also be drawn because there isn't a font that resembles my sketch.

I'm very happy with the colours and type combinations, especially the heading and speech bubble; the body text is where I will have to work on, as I've already used a number of typefaces on the page and it starts to look messy.

Screenprint design

The gif don't reflect the actual colours as the files were created in CMYK mode, but here is a quick show of the drafts I've done in terms of colourways and composition changes.

Flipbook

 

My flipbook animation made in the first session!

'My Space' collage - Symmetrical

For this collage idea I used photos taken in Britain, China and Japan. I was messing with photos of the buildings on the street I used to live in China and the symmetrical effect looked pretty good to me - so I carried on with this idea and added more elements.

I changed the sky to a previous experimental image I did for this project, which has a more dramatic blue to orange transition.

I played with blending modes to bring the objects together more naturally.

The difference is easy to see as I put 2 of the stages side by side.

I had some good feedbacks on the whole image and I do think it's eye catching. The oriental looking red leaves was in fact taken on the way to Birmingham, and the tower was a Japanese one. I'm glad that what I use in the collage aren't as obvious as they might sound.

I used this as my mock-up final poster, but I agree there is not much content in it. Focusing on matching up the horizon is easier to match photos and angles but doesn't give much depth to the finished result.

Kaleidoscope

These images are created solely on my phone with 3 apps. They allow me to apply many different effects; but at the same time it was challenging to achieve different results with the same tools.

Each of these has multiple effects applied, (I've tortured some with over 6,7 filters, hence the blurry quality) because I don't believe in good results at just one click. 

I was just taking picture of my grungy notes/notebooks/books...

Then moved onto other objects around me

 

And got a little carried away...

The rose/royal blue version is very dreamy, while the black and white is bolder with a solid black frame around it.

As you've probably noticed, I like to have pink-blue-purple, be them solid colours or gradients, in almost all my pictures. They are my favourite combination of colours and I think they go with everything.

That's possibly why I'm not very happy with the one below, that big orange blob in the corner totally killed it for me :|

I also played with shots of Mock The Week as it was on TV at that time. They were much more fun than still objects because you don't know what you'll actually capture!

6 finger Dara!

Not sure about the frame, but the line in the centre made it interesting

And some accidental strange results.

The one with Dara O'Brien reminds me of Constructivism posters and works of Rodchenko, especially the geometric lines and shapes.

But my favourite out of all has to be this - yes, because it's got pink and blue lights! And eye blinding turquoise! :D

Lastly it's my makeup bag, and from my point of view I think it looks like some kind of starry galaxy...no?

I may use some symmetrical designs in my projects as they are fun to look at and work with.