SECOND A-Z CONTINUED

THESE ARE A COUPLE OF EXPERIMENTS I DID JUST PLAYING AROUND WITH THE TRIANGLES ON PHOTOSHOP. I LIKE THE IDEA THAT YOU COULD TECHNICALLY MAKE AN INFINITE COMBINATION OF IMAGES OR STORIES - USING JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF PICTURES. THIS IS AN INTERESTING IDEA TO KEEP IN MIND IF I EVER WORK ON A NARRATIVE PROJECT.

SECOND A-Z

THIS WAS THE SECOND A-Z I DID, STILL UNDER THE SAME BREIF OF ILLUSTRATING ALL 63 A-Z'S. I FELT A BIT RESTRICTED BY THE STANDARD SQUARE FORMAT OF THE FIRST BOOK SO MOVED OVER TO TRY A TRIANGLE. ALSO, I CHANGED THE BACKGROUND TO BEING COMPLETELY FILLED IN. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE TO MY USUAL WORKING PRACTICE AND I ENJOYED THE CHALLENGE OF THE CHANGE.

AGAIN, I WAS PLEASED WTIH SOME OF THESE, ESPECIALLY THE MORE ABSTRACT ONES, BUT JUST FELT OVERWHELMINGLY RESTRICTED BY THE SOURCE MATERIAL'S INCONSISTENCY. I ALSO LIKED THE IDEA THAT A TRIANGLE CAN BE VIEWED FROM ANY SIDE AND THIS ALLOWED FOR THE IDEA OF INTERACTIVITY AND PLAY - TWO THINGS I AM REALLY INTERESTED IN WITH RELATION TO BOOK DESIGN AND THE AUDIENCE.

FIRST A-Z

THIS WAS MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT ILLUSTRATING AN ENTIRE A-Z. THIS WILL RUN FROM Z-A IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT IT FROM THIS WAY DOWNWARDS. MY INITIAL PLAN FOR THIS PROJECT WAS TO ILLUSTRATE ALL 63 A-Z'S TO FORM ONE HUGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS.

HOWEVER, THESE WERE TAKING FAR TOO LONG AS NOT ONLY DID I HAVE TO DRAW THE IMAGES, I FIRST HAD TO FIND THE RELEVANT SOURCE MATERIAL TO DRAW FROM. THIS PROVED REALLY DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY WHEN SOME OF THE WORDS WERE QUITE BLAND OR OBSCURE. ALSO, I WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY IN MY OWN MIND TRYING TO MAKE THEM MAKE SENSE AS A SET, AS THE WORDS WERE NOT WRITTEN DOWN WITH ANY NARRATIVE OR FORMULA.

I AM HAPPY WITH SOME OF THESE DRAWINGS AND WOULD MAYBE LIKE TO USE THEM IN A DIFFERENT CONTEXT, BUT THEY LOOSE THEIR STRENGTH WHEN THEIR NEIGHBOUR IS WEAKER.