vocab; magic, herbs, flowers, natural, green, medicine, remedies…
Pictures of plants, flowers, foods, witches cauldron, sun and moon.
Colour palette; a mix of green hues, neutral, earthy.
The first image “The Green Witch” has certain elements that I like, the framing of the typography and the vocab they have used. I just feel like it works well compositionally which I feel can use for developing my own ideas. I think the “boarder” is illustrated but it could be photographs instead.
“The Alchemy Of Herbs” has a photographed front cover, with a straight composition, I feel like this composition works well, it has clear, easy to read text which isn’t too big or over powering the background image. I quite like the colour palette and the photos content, I feel as though this kind of arrangement/ placement could be tried and tested for the final outcome.
“Traditional Western Herbal Medicine” this cover I adore most just because it reminds me of Halloween. The washed green coloured background works nicely against the dark imagery/text, but there are only few elements I could be inspired by and that’s the framing of the composition and the colour palette.
“Herbal Medicine Natural remedies” using another photograph, capturing a well thought out image of different medicines and herbs which is framing the typography. I feel like the use this to inspire my own zine layouts. I dont particularly like the chosen background colour, I think the colours look to saturated in areas and the blue background is too intense.
All the above notes/thoughts shows that the framing of the pages is important, especially the front page. The things I need to consider colour, the typography, and layout/composition.
Week 1: Intro to module. First tutorial – project structure.
Week 2: File types.
Week 3: Pixel art
Week 4: pixel art continued.
Week 5: Adobe animate.
Week 6: Digital painting.
Week 7: Research primary and secondary, photoshop editing.
Week 8: Tests and compositions for layouts.
Week 9: Photojournalist research, photoshop editing, photo manipulation. Start putting together ideas.
Week 10: Final ideas, Making final layout decisions.
Week 11 – 19: Coverage of specialist skills and zine design and development. Naming conventions.
Week 20: Display final outcome. Evaluation and reflection.
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