Book & Poster
I know the final results aren't digital but the process was digital so I've put the topic in here.
Book
The brief was to redesign a book from our childhood using the traditional techniques we had learned in workshop days in the previous 2 weeks (monoprinting, vinyl work, collage, blah blah) so I monoprinted a skull using oil paint and childrens art tools. I didn't want the cover to give anything within the story away so I kept it really simple. I made a slave book to put the cover on by recreating the original binding technique. Nothing special on this one but I was really proud of how the book feels as an object.
Poster
The brief was to create a conceptual B&W A1 poster on a topic from a list we were given, I chose cataracts. People with cataracts' vision becomes blurry and cloudy rather than clear and crisp and I wanted to represent this horrible problem somehow. The typography is drawn to resemble the stringy veins in an eye and the text in the background is extremely small so you have to get up really close to read it. I then hung a sheet of tracing paper over the entire poster to simulate what it can look like to see things with cataracts, and it is a metaphor for cataract removal surgery when you lift the tracing paper up to see the poster properly.
The text reads: "Blindness caused by cataracts affects around 18 million people worldwide and many more suffer from clouded and blurry vision due to the condition. It is an easy operation to get rid of cataracts but developing countries simply can't afford to cover the costs so peoples' eyesight continues to deteriorate."
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