Book Jackets and End Pages

Here are the full book jackets and two end page designs.

Project 3 - Photo Collage

I am SUPER PSYCHED about this project! FINALLY something for my major that I can kick ass at! Well hopfully haha! I have so many crazy ideas going for this project, I might be a little too ambitious. But hey, it's go big or go home!

For this project we are to show time in some way using photos and making them into a collage with numerous photos. I instantly got a ton of ideas and once I started getting really ambitious there came even more.

Some of my ideas are the Chi O fountain and Jayhawk Boulevard, downtown Lawrence, Clinton Lake, hookah, and SKC game (going to one over spring break).

And then I started thinking outside the box. I was inspired by the Hallmark Lecturer we had last Thursday by Matt Shlian. He is a paper engineer so he folds paper. I saw one of his first pieces and was instantly inspired. What if I cut slits in a printed photo and folded them to create a 3D effect? From there I started thinking about doing buildings and having 3D effects on the edges on a few areas. A friend in my class then suggested what if I took pictures of someone folding a piece of paper and making something our of paper and the image is then slit and folded to mimic that work. IT WOULD BE SO COOL!

Then I started thinking about shooting a hallway with doors and maybe a couple of the doors are 3D and they have a little pocket that then holds a picture of the inside of that room.

My mind is going bonkers over this project and I love it.

For homework we were to take photos of a couple of our ideas and put together a mock up of a collage with a few photos. Here is what I came up with. You'll notice I have two ideas that aren't listed above as initial ideas that I had. I don't have a vehicle or an easy way to get to downtown or Clinton Lake so I improvised and came up with two other ideas. One is looking out my window in my living room and capturing day and night with the different things that show up in the window. The other is just my cat Gus and his shenanigans and the different things he does throughout the day.

The Grid

In class today we discussed "the grid" we should use when designing. It took me back to my visual storytelling class I had took last semester; it was all about layout and design. I started thinking more and realized all of the areas design I am interested in and use and how they all use the same grid, everything does really.

It's basic really, and you can usually do it without realizing it. Unless you're just off when it comes to anything design related then it should come pretty easy.

I use it a lot in my photography, or at least a type of grid. The rule of thirds is used a lot by photographers to bring something out in a photo and to refrain from doing the norm. In the photo below, a friends daughter who I absolutely adore, I used rule of thirds putting her head at one intersection of the points and then letting her body curve down and lead you to the other end/corner of the photo where I then placed my logo. I love this photo for multiple reasons, but one thing I love is the rule of thirds and I love using it in just about every photo I take. I don't like things just centered, it's too boring, unless you are using it for a reason, to show emotion or display a particular image for the audience.

Whether you realize it or not, in any aspect of design, we all use a grid, some even make them and they can create beautiful images.

P.S. Click on the photo to check out my website and see more of my photography :)