The final Project!

Positive Ireland

After reasurching what Ireland is well known for, and Irelands popularity around the world i chose the angle of suggesting that Ireland is a nice place to visit for a holiday.
I wanted to use photography and illustration combined to exacute the final images. The brief asked us to not only create a design for a billboard, but also a T- Shirt and a free give away item.

This is how it looks :)

 T- Shirts :

And the give away item is a design made to cover a take away cup of Tea or Coffee.

The above image is the Tea - Tag for the Tea Bag :)
The images below were made for an actual print to iron on a T- Shirt - I tryed to print on the transfer paper but the printer didnt print the image well. however, what i learnt about T-Shirt printing is that the image has to be backwards . I added these images to the blogg as although they wernt applyed to a t- shirt, i did spend time trying to do it. All the best for the summer months and ill be back to update this blogg as a second year student (!!!!)  in September - All the best :)

Yes this is the DOOR!

THe final book

In the making

The covers

Ranking Week 2

On Monday we had to choose three ideas from the thumb nails. The text i made from a ribon - photographed and uploaded onto photoshop. I had two definite choices however the third idea was still in sketch form as i wanted to do an illustration. I wanted to create an image of Alice and her dreamy state. I was either going to create a sketch of Alice next to the rabbit hole with the fantasy's loosely around and coming from the tree. However i thought the illustration its self was too large and intricate for a book cover. .I really wanted to at least try to get away from the story, so that i wasn't "just" illustrating the story. I wanted to demonstrate a concept. The second execution of this concept became an illustration of Alice in a sleeping position with her dreamy fantasy's coming from her hair as her hair was communicating what was going on inside her mind as she slept. When i was happy with the outline of the final illustration  then uploaded it to photoshop. I added colour with fabric texture as in my minds eye i saw the final image as a collage. I did try out actual collage but as i was cutting and sticking the picture was ending up a bit tacky.  Although i like the final illustration i also liked the graphics piece and as the teacher preferred it i presented it for assessment. - The graphics piece was a reconstruction of the room in which Alice finds the small door. I had used a door that i found on Google images but i was advised to photograph and edit an actual door - which i did. I found the perfect door in Adare :) the perfect door waiting in Adare, who knew! Once printed it was cut and stuck to a block of polystyrene to look like a real book for assessment.
    The second part of the project was to design and produce a 3D book relating to Alice in wonderland and incorporating the essence of the theme. I had a curiosity shelf ( that was my jewelery box : ?) so i thought this was a brilliant thing to start with. I designed the book as if it had been found in the garden where Alice was at the beginning of the story. I also wanted it to be old looking and overly embellished as the book was set in the 19th century - Victorian decoration. I filled the compartments with small ornaments that related to the characters in the book. I made an Alice doll also, so if a child was to interact with the book they could play with the doll, open the small books, read the labels, "drink me", "eat me"etc. ( if it didn't fall apart - not for toddlers lol) I created the cover and a frame for the compartment area in paper mashe, cut the Ace cards to make several doors and made some ornaments from air drying clay. I'm delighted with it although there were a few problems along the way. (as there always is) Creative solutions had to be found quickly as time was of the essence - just like the rabbit in the story. :)

Ranking week one

Using all the reasurch we all began the week drawing out thum nail illustrations of various ideas for the book cover. There are so many styles to go for with Alice in wonderland ie the vintage look, just a elaberate border, illustration, collage etc. im am still pulling some ideas together, although what I have ready to show monday afternoon is still in sketch form. Im putting together a doodle type illustration that i think grasps the concept of Alice's dreamy world of Wonderland. This is only one of the ideas i am still working on,  3 ideas will be shown and disgussed tomorrow, and then we have the week to finnish with the final idea choice. Also we have to make a book relating to and incorperation the essance of our chosen book. I have been working on the idea of  curosity and how i may also be able to tie in the surreality of the book. |Content wise, I think the best thing to include would be poems from the book itself. I have a lot to do.:) but at least i have the plan.