I submitted 2 designs into Secret 7"s album artwork competition for the song 'Help' by London Grammar. By working on this brief I am starting to see a correlation between the kind of projects I enjoy working on and those I find a bit limiting. Alike to Penguin, Secret 7" provides a initial content but ultimately what is illustrated in the final design is open to your own personal interpretation. This kind of open brief lends itself to my tendency to develop concepts surrounding considered research and my own personal reflections on content.
I like the concept of my final designs - based on this idea on looking for the 'blue sky', representing positivity in times of hardship, and aiming to illustrate the bittersweet beauty of London Grammar's melody. I like how this imagery evolved out of personal experience and, at least for me, communicates small moments of taking notice of everyday beauty in English landscapes.
This brief also helped me to experiment with a mixture of handmade and digital textures - something I have wanted to work with for a while. I would like to continue to mix contrasting texture in my Dymkovo toy project - taking it a step further in that each texture is made using a different form of screen-print positive.
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