I'm Salted, are you?

FINAL BOOK COVER

'Salt' is still the main lead of my work. I think the word 'salted' is quite straight forward, it directly links to the sea, but somehow interesting. After I played with illustrator and photoshop. I cut out some part of my picture that contain cluster of colored salt, adjust the color of it and assemble them into a composition.  The brightness of the salt varies from dark to light. I also create my own font by using pen tool in illustrator. As you can see, the font have sharp edges. These sharp edges represent the pain and the sting I got from the small fishes. 

EVENT TEXT STUDY

design process

FINAL

design for event text study

BOOK COVER

design process

This is my first book cover - not the final

 there are not much changes between this and the final. For the final I just increased the size of the title and move them up a little bit.

From grey to color

COLOR/BW PALETTE

 JOSEF ALBERS

In this piece, I cut copies of Josef Alberts' work into little pieces. Then glue them based upon the shade of each piece - white to dark 

Turning abstract

FINAL

Acrylic on canvas;

Sharp edges and lines are the gadget of my piece as I think it can represent the word painful quite well. Other than that, the piece must be done using only black and white colors, therefore I think by using simple shapes would be the most relevant.

DESIGN PROCESSES

chosen abstract word - painful

As salt shifted to graphic

Acrylic on illustration board; 

When I think about things that are related to my event, salt is the first thing that came right up into my mind. This could be because almost every time I went into the sea I have to swallow at least one mouth full of sea water, which I have no idea why. I did not take a picture of salt because that would be way too boring. Instead, I had a play with them; I add colors into it to make it looks more interesting and to look more ocean-like. After that I just randomly scrub the colored salt onto my hands and took a picture of it. I tried to make the actions look the most painful as I can. 

 some collected images

PALETTES