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My sketches for a series of book covers (please don't judge my lack of drawing skills):

What the book covers ended up looking like:

Some didn't end up exactly like my sketches but having sketches gave me allowed me not to stray too far from my initial ideas and to problem solve when I was finalizing my book jacket series. 

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Design Tool

For some reason my first thought was an exacto knife because I feel like use them a lot not just for trimming things down but for creating – I really love collages. However instead I decided to go with the pencil, because it’s so invisible to the forefront of my mind because I don’t even have to think about using it since I use a pencil ALL. THE. TIME. (notice my emphasis there lol). Before I get started on a design or even writing a paper, which I will be typing, I use a pencil to sketch and outline my thoughts and ideas. The construction of the pencil is made of graphite mixed with a clay binder, leaving grey or black marks so that it can be easily erased. Pencils are used for writing and drawing so it made to be durable although gentle enough that it can be erased. You can use a light or heavy hand to emphasize the darkness of something in a sketch.  With a pencil things are only ever going to be gray, if I’m hoping to convey that something is colored I’m going to need another tool instead of a standard pencil.  Ballet writes “Drawings, pasted up layouts, instructional overlays, coordinated color systems, standardized ink formulation and paper sizes, prototypes, models and reprographic proofs were just some of the instrument invented to ensure that the faithfulness of a designer’s vision was executed according to plan.” When designing it always helps to have a plan and with a pencil you can sketch/draw out an idea so you can produce your vision exactly as it was in your mind and going into production it’ll help to show people who can’t read your mind as to what you want your design to look like. I think a pencil (at least for me) is the first tool I grab before I get down to work.

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Experimental Jetset – Statement and Counter-Statement

Experimental Jetset, Statement and Counter-Statement, 2011

http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/

Statement and Counter-Statement by Experimental Jetset – is a series of posters made up of collage made up with fragments of different graphic languages that influenced the artist. The entire series was created to convey an entire idea of a culture. This series asks, what does this culture mean? How does it effect me? What can we learn from it?

Although the torn pieces of posters come from a “popular” culture, the 80’s to be specific, the images in context with the quote by Walter Benjamin makes this piece (un)popular while providing a complicated pleasure because it evokes a question – how does it relates to our culture today? The bold images used relates and is relevant to the mainstream design world because they’re so many artist that like to push the envelope today from design, clothes, and music such as artist like as Lady Gaga and Rihanna who experiment with all of the three. This poster series kind of reminds me of they're work not exactly but it's reminiscent of they're risk taking style. 

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