FMP; Contextual References (Black Dragon Press)

Following my tutorial with Teresa on Friday, I decided to take a look at some of the contextual references we discussed looking at for this project. I really want my final design pieces to look professional and well made. I'd like to push my composition and colour skills in particular for this brief. I've found through all the live projects I've been doing I really enjoy doing linework. I've been exploring this were I can but this brief allows me more time to really get to grips with it. I'd like to look at drawing my images out in hand-rendered linework and colour them digitally. I'm excited to experiment with this process!!

Looking at pre-existing examples of poster design is something I believe will be integral to this process. I want to look at new ways to push not only the composition and colour of my images, but to integrate elements of design too (typography etc).

 BLACK DRAGON PRESS

- London based company specialising in limited edition 'prints and more'

- Est. 2014

- Range of styles

- Colour often used  to create strong sense of atmosphere 

- A lot of prints are limited palettes // hues

- Intricate line art mixed with selective colour so the images don't seem over cluttered or too complex 

- Consider placement of text when scamping composition 

- Colour of text to fit with imagery 

(Left to Right; Victo Ngai, Teagan White, Johnny Dombrowski)