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Adidas Neo Futuristic Competition

Decided to take part of the Adidas Neo Competion #outfitofthefuture creating a pattern which seemed futuristic and by playing around with Photoshop came out with a couple different outfit ideas which could work as workout line.

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Final Outcome: Notaphily Monograph

Notaphily is the collection of banknotes, since I love travelling for the last year I've decided to take back with me currencies from around the world. I have many international friends so I asked them for different currencies they had with a story they were remind of with such banknote.

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Printing the outcome

As a perfectionist there was lot of reprint of the cover backs, but I’m still not completely happy with this ones. The print (first picture) looked really bad quality compared to my test print. Therefore I printed a couple tries (second picture) from different printers to see which looked better. When I made a decision I printed the final cover (third picture)

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Evaluation Notaphily

For my printed evaluation I decided to go with the same layout as my monograph. I also included a little self assesment infographic. I looked back into everything went wrong throughout the project, and what I was happy with. Moreover what I’ve been learning from previous projects.

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Test Print Monograph

A week before deadline I did my first test print, with 2 different colours paper: white and green. I felt paper money has always been seen as the colour green so I thought that could work for the cover. 

I went around asking for feedback and some the main crits I got were:

1. The coca-cola bottle infographics was too small, not very noticeable.

2. When you open the cover the title ‘Notaphily’ is lost, you can’t tell what it says.

3. The paragraph in the cover doesn’t align the cards.

4. The colour green takes away quality from the banknotes images in the cover.

Taking all of my feedback into consideration I made a couple of changes.

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Layered title

I found this image on Pinterest of a titled image which I felt would work perfect for my pocket cover.

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Cover for the monograph

For the cover I decided to take another approach since the slip in cover didn’t work that well. I thought this cover makes the monograph have the feeling of a travel money carpet.

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Editing banknotes in Photoshop

I had a lot of trouble editing the images because of photoshop. Every time I imported a banknote image to photoshop, the program would detect it was a banknote and would not let me edit the image because ‘the application does not support the editing of banknote images’. As a result from this I had to import images that were more blurry so Photoshop wouldn’t detect this.

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Stories

I asked different international student to let me borrow their banknotes from their countries or travelling experience with a story the banknote reminded them of. This was a little tricky since I had 500 words for my whole outcome and 10 banknotes I wanted to talk about that meant I had to shorten some stories to an average of 50 words, but came out with great short stories.

1 Romanian Leu

This banknote is like having a piece of Romania with me, although it reminds me that with such is not even enough to buy a bread. Regardless, still waiting for that moment to get back home and my mother giving me that 1 leu to go to the corner shop.

1 US Dollars

The first memory that comes to mind when looking at my one dollar bill is from living in the states. When I went to school everyday and made sure it was in my bag to buy my daily packet of cookies.

10 Bangladesh Taka

Walking by Buckingham Palace in busy London I looked down and I saw this amazing looking banknote. At first I didn’t even know it was money, but when I realised I thought it could be worth a lot. Turns out it was barely 10p, not even enough for spices in Bangladesh.

10 Croatian Kunas

I never tend to see my friends from home any more, since we all live in different countries. Spontaneously we decided to go for a short trip to Croatia. After a night out in an island we decided to get a taxi boat home, for just 10 Kunas each.

5 Euro

After living outside of Europe for a year, I came back to see we had new banknotes, the 5$ was the only one that had changed so far. My first impression was that it was fake and that the coffee house was scamming me, however me and my aunt had 2 great coffees.

20 Hong Kong Dollars

With a $20 note you can travel from one side of Hong Kong to another. That's what I miss about growing up there, one minute I'm at home looking at the ocean and mountains and $20 dollars later, I'm right in the middle of a concrete neon jungle.

5 Australian Dollars

Every day I’m at uni, my friends and I walk down Broadway to buy Miso soup and sushi rolls with a five dollar note each. We choose Japanese, but in that part of Sydney, we could just as easily get Indian, Burmese, Thai, Malaysian or Vietnamese.

5 United Arab Dirham

The first big trip I ever did leaving the continent was my holiday in Abu Dhabi. There my friend and I went for a safari experience where in the middle of the dessert: we had a barbecue, did sandsurfing and for 5 Dirhams we rode a camel.

100 Indian Rupee

When I was younger me and my father would go on the weekend to the market on the streets in New Dheli. You could see a lot of kids playing football around the streets. My favourite thing to buy with 100 rupees was Samosas in the street food.

5 British Pound

When I came to the UK for the first time, it was very surprising to me seeing Poundland for the first time. I could buy anything I wanted for 1 pound, so when I got there I went crazy I choose 5 different snacks and bottled drinks for a fiver.

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Front Card Layout

It was brought to my attention that everything I do looks very strong and heavy so I decided to play around more to the layout and so perhaps something lighter. Moreover I had to change the colour of the coke’s silhouette since it didn’t came out printed the same

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Editing and aligning the images

After deciding the back side of each card I took images of all the banknotes with the hand of the person telling the story. I wanted them all to have the same feel and be set up in the same place in the page. Therefore I edited them to make the picture have a very white background, and left the same negative space.

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Infographics: Coca Cola Silhouette

I created a infographics board on Pinterest to search for some inspiration.

In my previous essay of object analysis I talked about the coca-cola bottle. The main point I made on the essay was the classic silhouette, when you see it you immediately recognise it. I needed an object for my infographic that represented 1 pound. 

Since most of my notes were green/blue I decided the colour of the bottles should be something on the lines.

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American Dollar: Cookies

My story for the American banknote was:

The first memory that comes to mind when looking at my one dollar bill is from living in the states. When I went to school everyday and made sure it was in my bag to buy my daily packet of cookies.

The silhouette imagery didn’t quite work out as I wanted to I decided to take a new approach for this. The person who told the story could hold the banknote.

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Inspiration: Paul Rousso

For inspiration on what to do with the banknotes I looked into Paul Rousso who created amazing artwork with different banknotes. He created massive crumbled sculpture for the banknotes.

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Levente Szabó posters for BAFTA’s Best Film

Five posters illustrated by Levente Szabó for BAFTA’s Best Film category in 2016.

BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) is an independent charity dedicated to support, develop and promote the versatile forms of moving images by identifying and rewarding excellence. With numerous categories, their annual awards ceremonies celebrate the most outstanding work in front of the camera as well as behind the camera.

Levente Szabó produced five illustrations for the nominees in the Best Film category including The Revenant, Carol, Spotlight, Big Short, and Bridge of Spies. Any art direction was done by Paul Willoughby of agency Human After All.

In terms of layout and illustration, all five prints share a uniform style. Levente Szabó has created distinctive silhouettes. Framed by the silhouettes are illustrations representing scenes of the respective films. The result looks simply amazing! Below you can see all five posters. If you want to discover more of Levente Szabó illustrative work, feel free and visit his website.

Keeping in mind the idea of the link between the story and the banknote to be the silhouette image, I came across this artist who I felt did a great job at illustrating the movie posters. It was simple to know which film was each story because it had something that really represented the movie in the poster. 

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Silhouettes

It was brought to my attention there was no link between the banknotes and the stories I was attempting to put together so I went to the internet for help. When seeing this images I thought I could incorporate this to my project and create a silhouette from each story and have the banknote image background and create a beautiful image for the back of the pages

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Playing around with the front layout

Since I felt the first layout wasn’t working very well I decided to play around with it. I thought of adding some infographics into it to impact on how much the note is worth in pounds, but didn’t quite have the impact I imagined. Also I blew up the symbol to make it more visible, like the first thing you see when you look at the card