Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley is a fine artist, working strongly with visual illusions. It has a strong correlation to my own designs, and gave me the background on how my wave illusion may work on a page.

Angus Hyland and his team have redesigned the British men’s magazine Palladium. Launching with Issue 5, available this month, the revamp introduces a number of new design elements whilst retaining some of the recognisable, existing features. We have reinvigorated the overall identity by increasing the pace and rhythm of the layouts and adding stronger typography for the titles of key sections, interviews and fashion. The new design also makes greater use of the diagonal stripe that has always been a signature part of the magazine’s visual identity.

I am currently looking for ideas, and existing design work to help me desig my own spreads for the Anxiety UK brief where i have to create a self help handbook.

More thing found no It's Nice That...

For the design practice module I am focusing on looking at existing design and designers that i want my work to go in the direction of, I find designs using geometry and illusions very inspirational and i hope the briefs that i have chosen will help me explore this type of visual further. The Anxiety UK will be a perfect brief to focus on the illusion side when creating geometric patterns. I can use these patterns as ideas for posters and the other materials i need to create.

Its nice that...

I love looking through design blogs! Here are various pieces of work i pulled from it's nice that


I like the layout of this piece, the monochrome is well balanced with bold headers and lighter bodies of text and image.

This piece caught my eye because of the overlays used, combining the different letter forms and patterns creates an interesting visual piece. I am unsure whether i actually like it though. I like the idea but the use of colour is not to my taste:

I have an interest in looking at letterpress so this was a nice little gem i found and read into:
Nice typeface design use of tone has created a different typeface compared to what i have been seeing around recently:
This was good to look at in relation to my phobias brief, I am currently creating wave patterns and optical illusions from them for a series of posters, Andreas' work definitely caught my eye impact-wise it is a very striking visual which is what i am aiming for with my poster designs:

Brochure designs - mainly covers

Just looking around for some quick inspriation for brochure covers.

Looking at the elements used on existing covers, sets off the overall design of the brochure.

From my crit the feedback i got on my anxiety uk brochure was to move away from the logo colours as it made it look too corporate and not very exciting. So i think i now need to look at more experimental cover designs.

These designs below are very formal so i need to move away from designs like these...