Amy Winehouse, Peaches Geldoff, Gordon Brown and Brangelina Hamlet interpretations

My Amy Winehouse interpretation was my favourite out of the four outcomes. I think it works best and i most enjoyed designing this one. I used cutting, pasting and scanning etc to create a torn and put back together image. It is meant to reflect Amy Winehouse's struggle with alcohol, drugs and her eating disorder. But she has been to rehab and hopefully on the mend, so this is why i put the ripped up text back together, signifying her deterioration of health, but recovery as well.

I found Peaches Geldof quite interesting to do. Some of the ideas i made though looked too young and sweet in my opinion. The overlapping and layering of text reflects her outspoken manner, and the bold sections of text are meant to show how she answers in interviews with quite monosylabic sharp answers. I kept the colours bright and quite young as she is known to be a bit of a party girl.

My Gordon Brown interpretation is laid out completely traditionally, with no obviously different layout ideas or typeface choices, as he wants to come across as a trustworthy, good person. I printed it on acetate though as polititians aren't trusted a lot of the time and be quite see through with the things they say. Cherie Blair was also supposed to be heard calling Gordon Brown a 'liar' as he talked about his and Tony Blairs relationship buring one of his speaches.

I thought the Brangelina outcome was the hardest to come up with. I first came up with linking the text with film, as they are constantly in the media spotlight. But I wasn't thinking enough about the actual typeface or layout choices. I gave Angelina Jolie a slightly fancy larger text and Brad Pitt more simple as I see him as more reserved. They start both the same size, with teir own positions on the page, but as the soliloquy goes on, Brad Pitts lines decrease in size and Angelina becomes more dominant. Their lines' positioning merge together and end up both on Angelina's side as I tried to reflect the idea of Brad Pitt maybe being more of his own person before he met Angelina Jolie, and how Angelina Jolie sometimes said to have stolen him of Jennifer Aniston.

Hamlet modern and traditional interpretations

For my modern piece i tried to design it as if it was a diary or journal, written by a teenager. They'd be depressed or just dramatic and attention seeking like lots of teenagers can be.


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I kept the traditional one quite simple, but wanted to give it an old feel, so i put it on a worn paper background. I made the paper size thinner than a4, but about the same height, so it had a scroll like appearance.

9/11 7/7 magazine

I started researching images which i could use in my magazine. Some images which gave me ideas follow:

I couldn't find out who created the image, but i did like how they combine two images and ideas in one. This lead me to experiment with collage and combinations of different things. Thinking about the idea of the twin towers being destroyed right down to the ground, i thought of actually ripping out the twin towers from an image, and placing the text, which i thought appropriate, into the blank space:


I also looked at city skylines and silhouettes, and thought of replacing elements, trying to reflect the idea of destruction and things changing within cities:


My idea was to combine text and image in one image, merging them so that there is no two things on the page. I was thinking about how the city is bombed and changed into something different, with the text being the element that has changed and destroyed the skyline image, and acting as terrorism:

Researching for my magazine

I decided to base my magazine on blast. I started to research ideas and organizations that used blast as their name. A few websites i found whilst doing this were the blast website for the bbc and a art and film venue. I thought I could maybe design a magazine based on these companies websites, but they didnt bring many possibilities to really experiment with typography and composition within my own magazine.

So I carried on brain storming and experimenting and came up with the idea of explosions and this lead me to think of war and attack. My final decision was to base it on the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks on the twin towers and london underground and busses.

Projects so far:

InDesign magazine grid and design
Magazine
Dreamweaver website
Hamlet traditional and modern typography
Hamlet typography: Amy Winehouse, Peaches Geldoff, Gordon Brown, Brangelina