Image Making: 7 Sins Project Crit Post

So in the beginning stages of the project, I started with brainstorming through some ideas on possible concepts for the project. The best ones included collaging books and major works of literature that reflect each sin, taking photos of architectual forms that represented the sins, and light and color.  Colored light jumped out at me most, and seemed a practical concept. So I ran with it.

Here were some initial sketches.

After some experimentation I soon started pumping out some pretty interesting images. Trying to capture an idea through abstract forms and color was difficult, and increased my interest in abstract imagery.

Here are some of the images further into the production phase.

And finally after several crits and many iterations, these were the final images for my accordian fold book, Seven Sins in Light. The order is as follows: Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Wrath)

Once again, iterations and sheer ammount of work definitely helped develop better work and better quality.  I also haven't worked much with long exposures, and working under both time and pressure.  These 15 second long exposures became mini performances.

VisCom2: "Ascending Everest" Color Work

So we've moved into color, and I've been grabbing plenty of hues from various images I collected for the past binder.

I've also been continuing work on my icons.  This is my workspace for the set at the moment.  Hopefully the number of those icons will decrease and I'll have a nice cohesive set.  I'll be attempting a background element to help with cohesiveness as well.

Type2: Buses and Billboards

So I've chosen CNN as my weather station, and I've applied some new graphics to buses and billboard templates.  All of them are to scale and could see actual use if they were accepted into such a company.  After crit however, I realize I have a lot of work to do on the layouts. Drought is very much like lightning, and wind is hardly legible.  Rain has perspective issues, and cloudy just isn't there yet.  So I'll have to put  a lot of effort over the next week. 

Ideas for campaign slogans are:
 -Heads up!
-Watch, stay dry.
-Keeping your feet on the ground.
-Weather, coming at you.

Type and Image: Greed, Gluttony, and Lust

Continuing my shooting, I've been learning a few more techniques.  It's definitely proving to be an exciting and challenging task to show the sins through abstraction.


Lust:

Greed:

Gluttony: