two original spreads
two new spreads

I found the layer blend was the most useful effect I used. Especially when removing whites to reveal the blacks to see the other images.

The emphasis in the first image (there are two because the backgrounds make a different effect for each) is the child reaching up for the sky. I made it stand out by having a light blue outline the edge of the arm, blue radiate off of him and have a posterized layer of the boy overlaying the original. In the second image the emphasis is the "Where's the rain?" image. It stands out because it is the whitest section on the piece being on top of a black brazil, it is different than all the other shapes on the work and it is the least altered.

Design Research

Alan Fletcher

April Greiman

Saul Bass

The Frog Prince

Between the Light

The word my bag is based off of is aberration. Which means a peculiar change in apparent positions of celestial bodies due to the affect of light and motion. I started creating the bag with a mirror hidden on the side of the bag, seen in the second photo. Light is coming out of the mirror and intersect to eventually return to said mirror and repeat this cycle. This shows both light waves and motion which when combined can confuse the mind into thinking is has seen something. In this instance the something is a ghost of a girl. Her body is layered in the center of the page and a face is pasted above it to complete a human like figure. The image is blurry and opac to give it a whimsical feeling. On the bottom most layer of the bag, a shadow of smoke is set. A darker shade of smoke is placed directly beneath the figure and more smoke is added to the back of the bag. These were created using the pen tool and wrinkled and twirled to achieve the desired effect. Within all of the layers of smoke are copies of the face seen on the front. Their opacities are changed to be just visible but leave a sense of mystery or questioning. A gradient was added diagonally to spotlight the female figure. It contrasts he light lines going horizontal and lightly diagonal which draws attention to the middle where they intersect. There are two spotlights, one being a gradient and one being a pen drawn spotlight that is pure white overlaying the gradient. The emphasis point is the female figure and the eye follows the lightwaves across the page. The girl has two different levels of opacity, one being soft light and one being exclusion. Their lines use a blur and wrinkle effect to create a ghostly effect. The entire color scheme is grayscale which gives the bag a feeling of darkness. Uniquely, this bag's photographs of the girls were my own photographs manipulated to fit the theme.

bauhaus

by Marcel Breuer "Long Chair", ca. 1935-1936
 He was a renowned architect and carpenter


by Gunta Stolz and Marcel Breuer "African Chair",
   She was the only female teacher for the school and taught the weaving department

by Paul Klee "Was Felt Ihm?" 1930 (What Is He Missing?)
  He was a visual artist who was one of the instructors to the preliminary classes for the school.

Steel Coffee pot by Naum Slutzky
  He taught at the school in 1919 with  mostly metal and jewelry.

by Vassily Kandinsky in 1923 "On White II"
  He taught beginner basic design classes and advanced painting. He is credited to creating one of the first abstract pieces that created an abstract movement.

The school:

Was located in Germany and taught from 1919 to 1933. They were the first to combine all arts in a single school and mix them together. They believed that all arts would eventually be brought together. They heavily influenced the modern movement, and still influence artists today.