LEGENDS OF THE FALL

IF A CLUTTERED DESK IS THE SIGN OF A CLUTTERED MIND, OF WHAT, THEN, IS THE SIGN OF AN EMPTY DESK?

GRID 

FREEFORM

MINIMUM

MAXIMUM

My colour palette 'marsala meets aluminium' taking inspiration from A/W15 and A/W14 colour collection combines the more traditional autumnal colours such as fiery oranges and deep reds but adds a twist of modernism with flashes of zingy lemon and slick charcoal grey.  As part of a mood board activity, allowing us to develop our skills when it comes to compositional ideas, we were asked to create a series of mood boards using primary research images/phrases we felt represented our colour palette.

The first composition I experimented with was grid, I found this to be probably the least challenging out of all of them, due to the fact it allowed me to display my images in a neat and organised fashion... (my flat mates would say this is my OCD coming out). Nevertheless, I found the colours in all of the images complimented each other extremely well and I feel this could be a more refined piece that could maybe be used after an initial mood board was made to gather trend ideas.

The next was free-form, something I found quite challenging as it involved me being really free and expressive, once I got the hang of this technique I found it to be one of the most interesting designs as  the contrast between a busy space flowing into a minimalistic small image allows the eye to move across the entirety of the board, I loved it so much I'm thinking about displaying all of my initial crazy ideas to projects like this!

Minimum is one I found quite challenging when creating a hands on mood board, I found that to make use of the powerful white background it would have been better if it was created digitally using Photoshop to ensure all of the images lined up perfectly without any messy edges and odd spacing.

Maximum is another, like free-form, I thought I would struggle with as I live by the phrase 'less is more', however, after much experimentation I finally found, what I deem to be, the perfect layout! Introducing typography into this layout I feel helped to break up what could have been an over powering set of images, I'm really happy with how this one has turned out and will definitely be experimenting with many more of these to come.

becky x