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Book covers

My latest project was to design a series of book covers for a set of four travel guides. We had to come up with our target audience and the 'big idea' of the book covers. I decided that I wanted to aim my travel guides at young people who were going away without their parents for the first time. I wanted the guides not to look like a travel guide so people wouldn't be embarrassed to use them, and also for them to be light weight and east to carry. 

I used pattern as a way to distract eye from the travel guide features. For each of the cities I wanted to echo an artistic style that originated there and this was channeled into the patterns. I am happy with these covers but am planning to extend the project further into more of a digital realm. Other than that a thoroughly enjoyable project where I had a bit of fun!

Ready steady archive

Spanish Sahara from Hannah Thornton on Vimeo.

Spent my evening last night playing with some of the software we had been given in our video/archive workshop. This is just a simple video where I was getting to grips with editing different clips together, working on a time line and using audio in Final Cut express. Thought this footage of crystals growing paired with the Foals song Spanish Sahara worked really well together as it showed the calming slow nature of the song. I'm quite pleased with the finished product- mainly as it's the first video I have ever edited! Now on to bigger and better things.

Film Archive

For the Sam Meech workshop 'Ready, steady archive', I've been watching the videos that we were supplied with. Was really taken with these two title screens from a families how movies. The type seems so lovingly made you can seen the time that has gone into not only the type but the film itself. I like to imagine it was the Dad who was in change of the camera and that he fancied himself as a bit ammature director. You can really see it in some of the more 'arty' shots he has taken. I am fully looking forward to where this project will take me.

Back to basics

In an attempt to get some fresh and ideas for this book cover project, I've decided to delve into the past. And this afternoon was devoted to and ideas hunt. I hope by having a look at how the masters did it may give me a much needed push in the right direction.

Absolutely loving the photo montages of Marianne Brandt, I picked up a postcard with her design on at the Bauhaus Archiv when in Berlin and since have research more into her work. Beautiful arrangements and real skill at playing with the space on a page.

Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

A great quote for Carl Sagan- an astrophysicist that I am research for a new project.

A lovely image for a Sunday afternoon. 

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