Emulating Saul Bass...

I wanted to try and emulate a Saul Bass poster using Illustrator. This was my (appalling) effort at trying to recreate the image from the 'Anatomy of Murder' film poster. Below is the original image…

Homework Task 4

Experimenting with Adobe Illustrator

I have never used Adobe Illustrator before, so it was completely new to me. When I found the 'Flare tool', I really liked how it looked and the effect it created. During my research to find inspiration of my final piece I have realised that I like the use of circular shapes. I would really like to create something using this as it reminds me a lot of this piece that I saw a couple of weeks ago.

More experimenting with Adobe Illustrator

After watching the you tube video on creating shapes and changes their anchor points. i spent a couple of minutes manipulating some shapes, just so I could get used to doing it. Here is a screen grab of my efforts…

Homework Task 3

I had no idea where to begin with this task. I have had a tiny bit experience with Photoshop, but it was very basic and a very long time ago. Once I had watched the video, I didn't find it too difficult.

Inspiration...

After spending hours trawling the internet for some further inspiration for my final piece I cam across the graphic designer Paul Webb who owns the company 'Webb & Webb'. Here is the website.  

When looking through their work, I found some book designs that they have done for Antique Collectors' Club. Although very simple and only featuring one image each, I really like these book designs especially ones with a monochrome effect.  

more inspiration...

I was searching on tumblr for different types of fonts and I came across this image. I really like how simple the font is initially, but the serif is quite quirky and elegant.

This is a free to use font, so I would love to use it in my final piece!

Once I had found out who had created this font and realised that she is a graphic designer. Here is the link to her website. 

When looking through her portfolio of work I found this image, which I love. I like the different shapes used and the way that they are laid out.  The idea of having images within these shapes is a really good idea. After being inspired by Damien Hirst's spot pictures and now looking at this I think I could do something quite interesting with shapes for my final design.