FABELHAFT II

Experimenting with digital collage.

I used Photoshop alongside parts of a previous illustration with a postcard of Celia Hammond in Paris taken in 1962.

FABELHAFT

Using part of an old illustration for my coffee shop zine from university last year, text lyrics from Kraftwerk's "Das Modell / The Model".

I wanted to create something mainly black and white in the end after playing around with Photoshop on another piece; something not too fussy. I decided to add one colour (red) with the hard brush as a circle of rouge to implicate it's make-up or on a model's, or woman's cheek. 

TOP: Black and white image with text

BOTTOM LEFT: Multiply 100% BOTTOM RIGHT: Screen 100%

HELLO CA$H

Another Johnny Cash inspired poster.

Original design/concept by myself.

Price tag created using polygons and pathfinder "unite" option.

SCHICK

Entitled "Anke"
26-27.09.2013

Watercolour & scarf textures

Experimenting with line and geometry.

KØBENHAVN CHIKKE

Entitled "København"
19.09.2013

Inspired by various sources about Danes and fashion, especially humongous scarves that consume you and high-tied hair buns. 

Mech pencil, moleskine paper and Photoshop.

STEFFI GRAF

Recently has ended the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

This poster came from watching a funny tennis video where a fan yelled, "Steffi! Will you marry me?" from the crowd, to which Graf replied, "How much money do you have?"

Created in Illustrator CS6 and edited in Photoshop CS6 with grass texture.

 

Block colour

 

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen

 

Left: Twice layered Colour Dodge

Right: Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 50% opacity

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 70% opacity

 

GRID SYSTEM

Another typographic poster from my Summer to-do list.
I do enjoy dabbling in Graphic Design, however a dragging lecture prompted a short sentiment.

No offence to Schweiz, the creators of, or utilisers of the grid system. In fact, it's a very interesting and useful concept. (You can even see I've paid a little homage its origin with a cute little Swiss cross on the bottom).

Created in Adobe Illustrator and edited in Adobe Photoshop.

 

TOP: Black & white

BOTTOM: Eggshell texture "multiply" 35% in Photoshop

MOTIVATION

So, I've made myself a list of posters to do in Illustrator over the Summer.

And this is one of them. So motivational.

 

Left: Solid colour in Illustrator

Centre: Crumpled paper texture at 50% opacity

Right: "Fawn" texture at 25% opacity

TIM BENDZKO

Just a quick little thing (yet again) whipped up in Photoshop. This time I played around with two different textures: watercolour and crumpled papers.

I love the album Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären. Just beautiful.

 

Above: Crumpled Paper

 

Middle and Bottom: 30% Watercolour Paper & 50% Watercolour Paper

SENTIMENTS: PT. II

Just a quick thing whipped up in Photoshop.

"Verdammt, ich liebe dich."

SPAß!

Just a little side-project using typography, colour and pattern.
*Spaß! (Deutsch) = Fun! (Englisch)

Made in Photoshop CS6. Sizes: 30cm x 30cm. Font: Impact.

TECHNICOLOUR:

Here I used a white brush and magic wand to get rid of some polygons

(#3 has a few missing in the body of polygons)

SQUARES

One of my favourite artists, Kazimir Malevich.

I was playing around in Photoshop with square canvases one day and thought of Malevich's Suprematist paintings of squares (Black Square and White on White).

Top: White on Black & Black on White

Bottom: Using halftone brushes on lowered opacity to make the text still legible

ALL HAIL BEARS

I finally got round to doing another poster after a bit of project work. The concept comes from love of awesomeness of bears shared by myself and one of my sisters.

I re-used the banner from "EINMAL UM DIE WELT" and re-painted and masked out a bear face to make it look OBEY-esque.

Illustrator CS6 & Photoshop CS6

BAKKUSHAN & CRO

Developed even more typographic posters after class today.
This time with lyrics from "Baby, Du Siehst Gut Aus!" by Bakkushan and "Einmal um die Welt" by Cro.

Third version with grunge texture
(Leading on the first poster could do with a bit of work)

Second version with paper texture

Customised with panda mask pen tooled in Illustrator

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.