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 Went to America bought a lot of cool records and I forgot about this little gem of a book. It is a compilation of artist books from Europe throughout the past 100 years. Some seem to be way ahead of the time and some just beautifully creative. I have selected some of the pages below to show you. These are some of the ones I found most appealing. The front cover is most interesting as well. It is layered and cut in such a way you get a sneak preview of some of the books prior to actually opening the whole book up. Click the image to increase the size of the image.

Highlights; Trying Something New

 Trying something new is always a good way to develop as a designer but doing so isn't always that easy. In uni, an entire unit was dedicated to doing exactly that. We were given two different designers or artists and we had to do pieces in the style of said person. Above you can see my work inspired by the great design guru; Chip Kidd, who is probably most well know for his logo for Jurassic Park. His main selection of work is in the design of high quality book jacket design. All of the above are mocked up potential book covers in the vain of what he would design.

Below, are selection of four different paintings/drawings that I did during the other part of this unit. I have not done any painting in many many years as secondary school kicked it out of me because they taught me nothing. These didn't turn out half as bad as I thought considering this fact. These pieces are in the style of Joan Eardley, a Scottish born artists who's main focus was landscapes and images of the poor youth.