Some examples of my final spreads

After a crit i decided to resize my document as a the photos lent themselves more to a portrait configuration. I wanted to scale it up as well as a bigger document would emphasise the feeling of getting lost in a city. I started experimenting with the cover. The cover will wrap around the document (so the page with phillipe on it will be the back page and apeloig on the front). I quite like the idea of having the first question on the front cover like this as the question sort of gives an introduction to Phillipe. The staircase’s vertical structure has been loosely mirrored with the column of text.

I also started to incorporate some of my black and white photos with the “type buildings”. The pages need a lot of simplifying at the moment. There is too much going on on the page which clashes. I am going to simplify my work by just sticking to the black and white photos and a simple text layout.

I started experimenting with the text by trying to create cityscapes. I used different sized text, bold and regular fonts, and different shades of grey to create a basic depth to the text buildings. I like the idea, but i feel that the outcomes down really work. They were working better on the American airlines campaign because they use famous building shapes such as the empire state building, where as mine are just rectangular shapes. The different fonts and colours also leave the pages looking pretty clumsy. I would like to go for more of a clean design look, and allow the text to breath more.

I’m now starting to think how the body text will sit on the pages. During a crit I was advised to look at an American Airlines campaign which used the text illustratively to create building shapes. I may try and incorporate this into my work.

Here are some of my photos which I have taken for my project. I used my dads old film camera, with black and white film, and ventured into Bournemouth town. As my project is to do with the city, I looked for buildings and structures which reflected this. It was quite tricky to keep the city feel in a sea side town, but I was pretty happy with my results. I like the grainy quality the film camera gave to the photos. 

I started to add some imagery into inDesign to start thinking about placement of my text. I still haven’t yet taken my photos so the image was dragged off of google to play around with the placement. I Also used scans of letraset scraps to create a city scape looking image. I used some basic lines to make the image flow through both the spreads, but I feel these look a bit clumsy. The type at the moment is a bit of a mess too. There are too many different fonts which aren’t really working together so I need to consider changing these. 

I really like these photos by a photographer called Weegee. His use of dramatic black and white photos are very striking and interesting. His photos are more figurative than how I want mine to look, but the dramatic tones maybe used in my work

Here I started to use the idea of photography into my work. This is just an image which i pulled off of google to experiment with as I have not yet taken my photos. I put the image in photoshop and played around with a two-tone effect which looks quite nice. However I think I want to stick to more of a black and white effect during my project as I want to keep it away from Phillipe’s style (which is quite colourful) and I want to explore black and white photography.

During my research stages of this project and generating ideas with my sketch book, one of my ideas involved cutting out words out of city maps. I came across these images which also use maps in an interesting way. The top image has arrows between the various sections of maps - which could represent the “movement” that Phillipe talks about.

I have chosen to Phillipe Apeloig as my designer to base my editorial project on. We have been told to steer clear from making our work look like theirs as we must respond to what they say in the interview rather than the work itself. Phillipe talks a lot about the city - about how he couldn’t live outside of the city, and how he likes the movement, the dirt, and the noise of it. These are some aspects that I want to try and respond to during my project.

To start this project our tutor showed us a slideshow of images as inspiration for our editorial piece. I was particularly struck by this image. I like how the text sits on the image like rain. I also like the use of black and white photography. We have been encouraged this project to explore new techniques and mediums that we may not have used before. As I don’t usually use photography as part of my image making process, I may explore with it this project.