Hey there, I present to you my last project of the academic year.
It was a rare occasion, as I went for a design brief.
We had to design a collection of books based on inspirational people of our choice.
I chose to design a series of book covers on the fictional spearheads of various bands:
Lumi from Genki Rockets,
The Duke from Marmaduke Duke,
& Murdoc from Gorillaz.
Why the masks? I played with the idea of people being so inspirational that other people would want to be them. I decided to take photos of "normal" people being their inspirational person. Also unintentionally I feel that the use of masks outline the fact that the characters aren't actually real. There's also a chance that I subconsciously came up with this idea because of my underlying obsession with masks... I'm not complaining though.
The main focus of each cover is the photograph, so I put the book title on an easily removable label. It'd be up to the book's owner to keep it on, I personally would keep it, but that's because I find it hard to let things go.
I know that by posting these next pictures I'm effectively showing you the same images 3 times, but I feel they need to be seen alone, in their striking form; with no distractions:
Man, photography is fun - next year I must be sure to do more of it.
Doing this project has made me appreciate and enjoy aspects of design a lot more than I used to. The idea of having to choose one pathway next year and go with it for the rest of my degree is a little scary, as I keep becoming unsure of my specialties.
As I've said at many times in general conversation I feel like a Jack of all trades,
but master of none.
