For this semester I want to design my minimalism illustrations for older books covers. I want to give these books new design and hopefully create at least 10 at the end of the course.
I have always been into minimalism but never had the chance to explore it in college or university, so I created my own personal projects. I started looking at celebrities and worked on their certain traits and leave the rest bare, such as hair, accessories, makeup, etc. I then explored the geometric portrait graphics. I didn't want to work on thousands of small details so I looked at large shadows on the faces and worked on top of a photograph to produce the graphic portrait.
For the books I want to explore the smallest graphic, the "less is more" approach to catch readers eye and to show what the book is about.
I'll be studying some artists influenced by Saul Bass who created modern movie posters using his style. I'll also be looking at minimalist and their design process on how they come up with that idea along with picking 10 old books to work on, some widely known and some that no one has heard before.
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| Minimalist portrait of Sarah - Hocus Pocus |
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| Geometric portrait of sister |
