#orlandoproject

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#palecek #orlandoproject

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#degournay hand painted wallpapers. #stunning #orlandoproject (at Mono, Ontario)

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Measuring out #wallpapers today #Kravet #orlandoproject #interiordesign @adamandcompanyinteriordesign @ (at Mono, Ontario)

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Super fun day colour scheming for our #orlandoproject #adamandcompany @kravetcanada with @sonia_gk @paul_at_kravet @micheleatkravet

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Final Poster Designs

I felt that something felt wrong with the colour on my poster. It felt too blocky and unrealistic. I therefore went back into the digital colouring, removing the brick red from the roofs and windows where the colour shouldn’t be. I much prefer this version, as it feels a little more realistic and has less of a zine aesthetic. 

I wanted to tie together the separate elements on the poster and therefore decided to take this brick colour into the portrait and the text. I highlighted certain points in the portrait that I felt could also be a red colour - taking inspiration from the 1992 film especially for the red hair. I also changed the text to a darker version of the colour which I think ties it into the rest of the image a lot better.

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Orlando’s House

I felt that Orlando’s house played a major part in the story. It is given to him as a gift from Elizabeth I to show that he is her favourite and symbolises him becoming a man. He then returns to the house throughout his life and it remains the only constant throughout the centuries. He always retreats there when he needs to just be himself. I think perhaps that the house could be almost what’s keeping him there.

I layered my drawings of Elizabethan houses, as I loved the description of the house as being like a small town. I therefore wanted to make it feel busy and rambling. I also wanted it to feel as though it has been added to and added to throughout the centuries as most old mansions have.

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More Composition Experiments

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Poster Layout and Typography Experiments

After deciding to used my collage portraits, I had to decide how I would turn these into a poster. I asked people’s opinions of the collages and chose the ones that were most popular with my peers and with myself. I then photographed them and played around with the positioning on Photoshop. I knew that typography would be very important to the final look of the poster, so I experimented with many different typefaces. I initially tried collaged letters to go with the collaged faces, however I found that this created too much of a zine-like aesthetic which I didn’t feel related to the book. I then decided that hand-written text would go much better with the feeling of the book.

I created a hand-drawn version of the Elizabethan printed type I initially used which I liked the look of but ultimately felt didn’t make contextual sense, as I thought it would be better for the writing to look like Orlando’s handwriting as it’s quite an important plot point that Orlando himself writes a lot. I began my copying Elizabethan handwriting, as this would have been when Orlando learnt to write and therefore the handwriting style he would have. I then developed some of my own typographic styles based around this.

I did struggle with the layout, as I kept feeling that the elements weren’t working well together and that something was missing from the composition. As typography became a big focus for me, I tried using some in the background. I chose some samples of handwriting from Queen Elizabeth I, as she is quite a major character at the beginning of Orlando and helps to set the plot of the book and Orlando’s life in motion. However, I still didn’t feel that the composition was right and that a different, more detailed background was needed to offset the simplicity of the portrait and typography.