BOOKLET: PRINTED

The finished printed booklet for one of my Univeristy projects. Used InDesign to compile it as a PDF ready for print.
In printing I used Moleskine paper pasted onto regular copier paper for the inside pages and brown paper pasted over regular copier paper for the front and back cover. Took a lot of time and effort to construct the whole thing.
Two insert spreads are drawn by hand as no time was left for them to be printed, but they still give an good overall effect I think. I drew a metaphor between coffee and the sea as I made it a journey through the booklet.

Publication thumbnails:

Finished publication:
Title: Q (shortened from "queue")

Front and back cover

Page 1

"THE COFFEE CUP"

The icon of a caffeinated religion, pilgrimage includes: businesspeople, models, students and overworked parents alike.

It is here where we begin our voyage dear wayfarers...

Page 3-4

Illustration insert of the sea and coffee bean fish  

Page 6

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, enslaving than coffee.

(Paraphrased from: There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. -Joseph Conrad)

Page 7-8

Baristas, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

(Paraphrased from: Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. -Nicholas Monsarrat)

Page 9

The coffee is the same on both sides of the cup

(Paraphrased from: The water is the same on both side of the boat. - Finnish proverb)

Page 10-11

Illustration insert of queuing and coffee with the coffee bean fish being poured into a cup

Page 13

Like to moan. Like to queue. Love to moan about queuing. My God they're British.

And the blue lion laughed and laughed.

SOME OF THAT NEW STUFF

A greeting for Dia de los Muertos.
My take on La Calavera Catrina; a design for this year's celebrations.

I wanted to create something to highlight the event of the Day of the Dead; marigolds symbolising the memory honoured by the living to the dead, crucifixes to show faith and sunrays to depict new life. The Catrina as the central figure embodies a typical depiction of DOTD, I added a veil of stars to her outfit in parallel to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS

So our task for this week's discussion was typographically set-out illustrations of overheard conversations.
Seriously, I overheard nothing. Nada. Nichts. Rien. This was about the only thing I did overhear...because in a supermarket in England this is all you hear.

Enjoy it in all its simplicity.

BROWN PAPER SERIES 5

A little supplement of the illustrations using brown paper.

Mexican sugar skulls - Día de los Muertos.

HOSPITAL: FIRST SKETCH IN THE NEW MOLESKINE!

Got myself some Moleskine journals the other day and decided to break one in and test the watercolour.

"Hospital" is Maggie Beauford as portrayed by Jessica Chastain in the 2012 film Lawless. (Absolutely loved this film)
Reference below. Pencil sketch, biro drawing and watercolour.

MOSCOW: REVISITED

Not literally.
Playing about in Photoshop waiting for my lecturer to arrive and remembered I had an old sketch of Russia I never did anything with. Did a couple of variants (text and halftone edges) but overall a pretty good experiment to unwind with.

Watercolour paper and brown paper textures

GOAT

Goats and mountains. Ideal.

Brown paper on sketchbook with Faber-Castell ink pen (XS, S, F, M & B)

A FEW EXTRAS

 Photo overlays on brown paper sketch

Jay

Halftone brushes

Namor

IRONMAN POSTER

A couple of posters I've made using traditional media (handmade paper and Indian ink), Photoshop and Illustrator.

BROWN PAPER SERIES 4

Two most recent brown paper sketches of people. 

Michael Fassbender photoshoot & Ryan Gosling Drive

BROWN PAPER SERIES 3

I'm really having fun with this way of drawing at the moment so here are a few more brown paper sketches.

BROWN PAPER SERIES 2

Some observational drawings of objects. These were actually quite fun to do especially looking at all the detail and seeing what I could do in 10 minutes.

BROWN PAPER SERIES

Aim of the game: quick 10-minute pencil sketches, rough inking with XS Faber-Castell pen and outlined with a white paint marker. Simple.