Roman Macrae Illustration

 

 

 

  When looking back at the work I have done for this project I think I can be proud of what I have done. I chose to create a small publication about frozen conflicts detailing two stories, one about the Armenian and Azerbaijani conflict and the other about North Korea. I think as individual pieces of work my double pages are effective separately however I think that I could have thought much more about how they worked in tangent to each other. Looking at my publication as a whole I think it doesn't exactly work or seem like a real magazine.  I think this can be attributed to my changes in colour pallet and not having a running theme or recognizable feature that ran throughout. I was quite fixed on trying to create a varied magazine that had lots different to it so that it would not feel boring that I neglected what needed to be done.     I really enjoy my spreads and think some of them have very dynamic images but some seem too flat which is something that I don...

  Over 10 years German designer Otl Aicher made a poster series based on a small town. His work is monochromatic and breaks the typical 'colorful postcard' style in favor of a contrasting, stark and monochrome approach.

  Looking at Heinrich's work I can see that she has a lot of fun with her work, I really enjoy the cluttered atmosphere that she brings to each piece creating very satisfying images to look at. Even when talking about quite serious events or problems she still uses this fun style which in my opinion is great. I love her use of colour as well, mostly soft colours but they still pop out. I also really like her smaller editorial work such as- Even though these drawings are small I think they are just as effective and it is something I could think about doing for my magazine to break away from constant double page pieces of work.