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My own typography.

I tried to keep my typography as simple as possible with dimensional shapes to fit in with my

kaleidoscope theme.

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My own typography.

I tried to keep my typography as simple as possible with dimensional shapes to fit in with my kaleidoscope theme. 

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Photography Simulation.

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Own photography taken from the Lorenzo Vitturi:

Dalston Anatomy @ The Photographers Gallery,

London.

  Ridley Road market in Dalston is one of the last remaining

examples of a working-class, vividly multicultural London: the

type of neighbourhood that is fast disappearing under the tidal

wave of gentrification that has transformed swaths of east

London over the past decade.

  Vitturi arranges found objects and photographs them against

backdrops of discarded market materials, in dynamic

compositions. These are combined with street scenes and

portraits of local characters to create a unique portrait of a soon

to be extinct way of life.

  “I was trying to recreate the identity of the market through

whatever I could find there that served my vision of the place and

its energy. So the coloured chalk that is used to cover some of the

faces in the images is sold in little baskets on a stall on Ridley Road.

Later, I found out that the chalk is used as a painkiller in west Africa

for women who are pregnant. Every picture has a hidden story."

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Charlie Engman’s fluid, playful images are masterful constructions of models, props, colour, texture and re-arranged space. This image is very interesting

in that it’s a photograph inside a photograph. I like that everything about this image has been considered from the angle of the woman’s head and how her 

hair flows to the colour theme throughout focusing on the blue and golden beige in both the photograph and the photograph inside of the photograph.

“My photographic work grew out of a central concern with visual gesture, texture, material and how these elements relate back to the body, both

emotionally and formally,”

“I am interested in this transition from the physical to the visual and the uncertain hierarchy between those two modes.”

Charlie Engman

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I believe that to truly know where photography is going, what is prevelant at the

moment and what the future will hold we need to go back to the start. I chose

this Untitled piece by Erwin Blumenfeld as I admire his work immensely. The

Berlin-born photographer was one of the most internationally sought-out-after

portrait and fashion photographers in the 1940s and 1950s. This photograph is

part of a series of nudes Blumenfeld produced while living in Paris. He sought

to bring out the unknown, hidden nature of his subjects; the object of his quest

was not realism, but the mystery of reality.

  The simplicity of the photograph is a favourite part of mine. The image is solely

of a nude woman, taken from different angles which I believe captures the

human form at its best. Blumenfeld developed his own idiosyncratic style, using

photomontage, solarisation, colour slides and a host of hybrid techniques.

Erwin Blumenfeld

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Illustration 5 inspired by Meagan Morrison

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Illustration 4 inspired by Alex Tang

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Illustration 3 inspired by Leigh Viner

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Illustration 2 inspired by Amber Louise

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Illustration 1 inspired by Daniel Velasco

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This is one of my favourite illustrations by Amber Louise. I love how different it is to a standard

pencil drawing, layering the same image over itself creating a mirroring eye illusion. As my main theme

though out is mirrored/kaleidoscope'd images I may use this image as inspiration for my 5 illustrations. 

Echo

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Watercolour illustration by Antonio Soares

Fausto Puglisi Fall Winter 2014 for Vogue China Digital

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Watercolour illustration by Antonio Soares

Altuzarra Fall Winter 2014/15 commissioned illustration for Vogue China

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Dries van Noten

Daniel Velasco 

Watercolor on cold press paper

http://danvelasco21.tumblr.com/post/95498002779/dries-van-noten-

watercolor- on-cold-press-paper

I love this watercolour piece by Daniel Velasco as it combines the

detail in the shirt contrasted against the abstract face.

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Pencil/Watercolour/Ink illustration.

"Caramel Fur"

inspiration: Vogue China Collections s/s 2011

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Pencil and Watercolour illustration.

“Italian Print”

inspiration: Dolce and Gabbana f/w 2012 fashion show