Plan

Overall Idea

My general idea is to create a magazine titled "sublime and mundane" the front cover will feature my work and the contents will all link with sublime and mundane & typography. By the end of the first day I aim to have at least a basic back ground that I'm happy with. By the end of the second day I want all the content to be filled in and the back cover completed. I found this idea through my artist Neville Brody, I thought his work would look really on a magazine, so I created work inspired by him and formed the magazine idea around it.

Potential ideas

• I may have on each page a theme, maybe artist or art style
• Look at the schools own magazine "blue planet" and draw inspiration from it.
• Make a QR code for my magazine that leads to my blog or website

Changes

I have chosen not to do a massive amount of contents inside the magazine due to time constraints. Instead I'm just going to do the front and back cover.

Neveille Brody

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. He was also partly responsible for instigating the FUSE project an influential fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design. Each Magazine is complete with articles relating to typography. He is most well known for co foundering FontShop and is responsible for some of the most popular fonts on the website.

But the reason i like Neville Brody so much is because of his work with typography, he is very unique in his style of art. I Particularly like how clean it is, its not to messy, it has a point and he is very good at conveying it. I think this achieved through minimalism, each peice doesn't have a hundred things to look at. for example:

In this piece Brody has a clear focal point and doesn't mess around with distractions. Some people might not like this minimalism style but personally i think it just looks even better if you can make something look so good without tricks etc. 

This is also my favourite piece by Brody because it incorporates typography, a deep meaning and its generally very colourful, It feels like propaganda and i personally like that because it means its art you can rally behind.

A small contact sheet of some of Neville Brody's work

Sergio Larrain

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Sergio Larrain was a Chilean photographer. He worked for Magnum Photos during the 1960s. He is considered the most important Chilean photographer in history

as a whole Sergio Larrain is a black and white photographer who uses lighting to create amazing silhouettes along with really utilses fog and mist to not only set a ominous tone but also to create a depth of field.

Lerrain has taken a what appears to be a candid photograph 

Dadaism, Jammie Reid and Neville Brody

Dada

Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artist and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.

this idea that art and music can be a form of protest world wide is something that really interests me. And i really believe that it effects the tone of art, for example their is lots of big bold red text repeating the word DADA, it really stands out from the rest of the mundane black and white foreground. I think that the very big and bright text is in the back ground because this was made to protest the war and the the black text is the media trying to cover over the Dada movement but its such a big and and spoken thing that the media cannot fully block their message.

This is some of the other Dada movement (inspired?), all following the same technique of having the very bold red text in the back ground and the black text overlaying it, to a point,

When I found this piece I immediately fell in love, And with further research I found that this is inspired by the artist "Jamie Reid" who is responsible for one of the sex pistols album covers,

 Jamie Reid

Reid is known primarily for the deployment of Situationist strategies in his iconic work for the Sex Pistols and Suburban Press.

Jammie Reid is very much a punk and you can tell from his work, its very messy or chaotic. I think he takes a lot of inspiration from dadaism because most of his work is protesting something, I particularly like his use of fonts, it looks like he's stripped a newspaper for its words and re arranged them so that they say his own message.

Neville Brody

during my research into Jammie Reid I discovered someone who took some inspiration from Reid. Neville Brody is an artist who shot into popularity around the 90's with his unique type face typography style of art I will make a more in-depth post about him because he so far is my favourite 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 and became the master of candid photography

Leading Lines

Henri cartier was famous for using leading lines in his photography. I illustrated above what I think he has done with leading lines using red lines to show where the lines are, he was also an almost completely black and white photographer. I think he used not only leading lines and depth of field to create focal points but lots of negative space to highlight his focal point(s)

By having all this negative space he makes drawing your eyes to things like the mans reflection on the left a lot more noticeable and makes them generally stand out more. the space around the focal point can often distract the audience but when the space around the focal point is a constant, its considered negative space, increasing the appeal of a composition through subtle means.

Man Ray Response

Man Ray

"Legendary Photography, painter, and maker of objects and films, Man Ray was on the most versatile and inventive artists of this century. Born in Philadelphia in 1890, he knew the worlds of Greenwich Village in the avant garde era following the 1913 Armory show; Paris in the 1920's and 1930's, where he played a key role in the Dada and Surrealist movements; The Hollywood of the 1940s, where he joined others chased by war from their homes in Europe; and finally,Paris again until his death in 1976."

Man Ray was most well known for his photos of peoples faces or parts of their face. He moved to France and experimented with photography, His experiments with photography included rediscovering how to make "camera-less" pictures, which he called rayographs, also known now as photograms. A photogram is an image made without a camera by placing objects onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used.


I personally don't like Man Ray that much, I find his images can be at times interesting but more often then not i think that these simple, colourless portrait photos and bit dull and lacklustre

Personal Response

First of all I need photos, specifically I need photos of a model