Thursday, 3 November 2016

Contextual Research: Visual Skills



• Bill Bragg is an illustrator who has worked a lot with the Folio Society creating simple book covers that pack a big punch. His use of a limited colour palette, basic shape and form and negative space is something I really want to take into consideration when creating my roughs and final book cover. The Metamorphosis cover, especially, is my favourite from his works as the silhouette against a patterned vintage background juxtaposes the creepy and the beautiful. The red and black work really well together and is a colour scheme I am contemplating using.



• Ronald Cala is a graphic designer and illustrator who layers negative and positive imagery together to create multiple meanings that require closer inspection and second viewings. As with Bill Bragg, he uses a very limited palette partnered with simplistic forms and motifs. These are exceptionally clever pictures that I hope to be able to draw inspiration from in my developmental work.


• Louise Lockhart visited my peers and I recently to discuss her practice of making pictures (a more detailed blog post can be found here). I really admire her drive and dedication to trying out new ways and processes of creating illustrations and find her combination of simplistic shapes, forms, colours, compositions and techniques very inspiring. I would like to implement her craftsmanship into my final cook cover - using an amalgamation of paper cut, scanned textures for added visual interest, digital manipulation (Photoshop) and the negative space concepts of Bill Bragg and Ronald Cala.

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