SCREEN PLACARD: NARROWING AND REFINING

Going with my childhood memories theme, here are some refinements and compositional explorations of my shadow-box idea:


VERSION 1:




VERSION 2:





VERSION 3:





VERSION 4:


Personally, I like versions 2&3 the most.

SCREEN PLACARD: FIRST FORMAL EXPLORATIONS

CONCEPT 1: EVENING IN VERSUS EVENING OUT

Planning on using my pillow, teacup, and television icons, I found imagery that would juxtapose against them to convey the idea that an evening spent quietly at home is less detrimental than an evening spent out drinking, eating, and going to clubs, etc. I linked the pillow with alcohol, the teacup to eating out, and the television to nightlife entertainment.
alcohol
eating out
nightlife entertainment
hand-drawing overlays


CONCEPT 2: SIMPLE RURAL LIFESTYLE

In this group, I was using my cigarettes, television, and bundt pan icons, linking them to stereotypical people living the simple, small town lifestyle. With this theme, I was thinking that it conveyed the sense that these people's lives aren't going anywhere... they will be in the same position today as they will be on the day they die- thus, my title, 'Last Will'.
acetone transfer exploration 1, with vellum overlay
acetone transfer exploration 2

Sceenprinting exploration 1:
housewife cooking (bundt pan icon)
man on tractor smoking (cigarette icon)
fat man on sofa (television icon)


Screenprinting exploration 2:




CONCEPT 3: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES FROM AN ELDERLY POINT OF VIEW

Here, my teacup icon linked with a juice box image, my pillow icon with a teddy bear, and cigarette icon with a lollipop. These are meant to give the impression of an elderly person remembering childhood memories and the objects that they used to use as a small child in comparison to the ones they would be using today.
initial brainstorming
creating three-dimensional lollipops for my little shadow-box exploration
three-dimensional teddy bears



shadow box exploration, with depth-collagingfamily photographs, to be used in my stitching exploration of my childhood memories theme
stitching on glassine, overlayed on copied family photographs

glassine laid flat over imagery

PROJECT 4: SCREEN-BASED PLACARD CONCEPTS

Concept 1: SIMPLE RURAL LIFESTYLE
Concept 2: UNDER THE SURFACE DETRIMENTAL
Concept 3: EVENING IN VS. EVENING OUT

Concept 4: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES FROM AN ELDERLY P.O.V.
Bringing all my concepting together
Very first sketches of Concept 1

I'm planning on dropping my second concept, the 'under the surface detrimental', so I can have three final concepts to explore.

STATEMENT

FINAL MAGAZINE/INFOGRAPHIC

Final infographic and magazine spreads, ready for final critique tomorrow.

infographic
Front cover for my bound version of my magazine spreads
Spread 1
Spread 2
Spread 3

Back cover of my bound magazine spreads

MAGAZINE LAYOUT CRITIQUE

Oh geez, so now I don't know which layout to go with. After my small group critique with Tezz and Jamie, I'm leaning more towards my simple design. I understand where they are coming from, since all I've been doing all semester is tightly-packed, detail-oriented design, filled with tons of grandma frills and crap like that. I guess I am ready for a break, and Tezz pointed that out wonderfully! So, I'm thinking that I will continue work on both directions, and see which end becomes more fruitful. 

INFOGRAPHIC: NOW WITH MAGAZINE SPREADS... STIIILLLL STUCK

Magazine layout inspiration and possible image inserts...

This paper was scanned to use as the water pattern in an earlier version of my infographic, and now is being used as an entire overlay over the whole map.
This map of Italy was scanned and also used as a subtle overlay on my infographic just as the blue pattern was.
My hand-embroidered blueprint elements, to be cloned across my map.
The embroidered globe border, also to be cloned.
This is the final infographic for today's critique. I'm still unhappy with it! It's the colors, the layout, it's not dynamic... etc. I agree with you, Jamie, this needs to be not so symmetrical and a lot more dynamic with cropping and scale... but I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing that at this point, since you mentioned getting rid of the globe shape border to help with the cropping, but that to me seems like the biggest clue for the viewer to say that this is a map of the world...


Floral magazine layouts, using century gothic and clarendon

More simple and sophisticated version of my magazine layouts, using solely century gothic. I think this one doesn't have as much to offer, and doesn't match my infographic as well in regards to formal language. Although I do like my photographic images a lot more in these spreads. They have a more artistic, emotive feel to them, and the colors in the images match my infographic. So I'm planning on switching out the images in my floral spreads with some of the images in my more sophisticated spreads. I'm also planning on making my infographic bigger in general on the page, so it's easier to read all the information. 

Uumm I'm in for a busy weekend I'd say.