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letterspiration · 1 year

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grad702-nina-jackson · 2 years

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Week 2.2: Photography, Type, and Alphabet

Photography

I spent a day outside of work photographing Hamish and a lot of his personal work in order to build up a background on irezumi tattooing and practice

I also wanted to test whether this could be an option of alternate imagery in my publication rather than the straight illustration.

Although I wanted to illustrate. I also tried out photographing other artists and their work for the publication imagery to see if it could be a better fit. These images are of Hamish Mclauchlan, the tattoo artist I work under. He specialises in largescale Irezumi pieces and is widely recognised in the tattooing world.

Ultimately I decided against using an artists face or their professional work in my publication. This is because I wanted the focus to be on the concept of irezumi itself, without attaching a specific person and their established style of tattooing to it.

I used my own illustrations because although they are all produced by one person, they are an ambiguous interpretation of a massive collection of irezumi artwork. The reader should be able to envision their own world of irezumi from the publication without bias.

Typography

I know I want my display type and potentially bodycopy to follow a loose, script like/ handrawn, personable feel. Something inky and imperfect would be excellent for a title font as I want it to match the illustrations in this illustrative and painted style. Below are some rough options that I was drawn towards for the minimal type that I plan to have in this picture book like publication.

Alphabet for Irezumi

Since I want my picture book to follow this ABC structure I started brainstorming ideas for each letter of the alphabet. I thought this would be a way to link the western world to this popular Japanese tattoo style that has been made popular worldwide. Western clients are becoming more and more common and this is likely who my picture book will be aimed towards as they are more likely to have a lack of understanding of the cultural and historical symbolism of the irezumi style rather than local Japanese people.

The only thing to take into consideration is the fact that in japan a few letters in the english alphabet do not exist so I will have to comment on this at some point in my book as some letters such as q and x. Below is my current list that I am constantly returning to in order to structure my illustrative process moving forward.

Ape, Akkorokamui (octopus)

Bones, Baku (devoured of dreams), Blossum, Botan (peony)

Cat, Crab, Crane, Crysanthumum

Daruma

Enkō (kappa of shikoku), enenra (yokai of smoke)

Frog, Fujin, Foo dog

Geisha, Golden boy, Genbu (black tortoise)

Hannya, Hou-oo (pheonix), Hebi (snake), Heikegani (crab)

Irezumi, ikuchi (yokai of the sea, serpent)

Jorogumo (spider woman), Jishin-namazu (giant catfish that causes natural disasters)

Koi, Kitsune, Kappa, Kirin, koinobori, Kiku (Chrysanthemum), Kaeru (frog)

Lotus (Hasu)

Masks, monkey, Maneki Neku (cat)

Nue (chimeria), Namakubi (severed head), Namazu (catfish), Noppera-bō (faceless ghost)

Oni

Pheonix, Peony

Q

Ryu, Raijin

Serpent, Sakura, Samurai

Tiger, Tengu, Toad, Tanuki (raccoon dog)

Ushi-Oni

Vulture

Warrior, Wave of Kanagawa, wakkaonna

X

Yokai (ghosts demons spirits)

Zugaikotsu (Skull)

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grad602-pt2-catherinepascual · 2 years

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Developments

YOOYOYO im ngl i am soooo burnt out rn like oml but I can do little things like brainstorming :))

Logo

Change the logo to be something more simple and indicative to the point of difference which is the bee nectar.

Moodboard:

Typography

I think I’ll keep the main header as I’ve grown to be quite fond of it!

The body copy might be altered - maybe something more trusted and traditional (so a serif typeface).

Colour palette

Slight tweak - I feel like if people are gardening then they’re gonna get their garden gloves and dirt all over the box HAHA sooo like, should I go with a dirt brown? I feel liek it should be some deeper shade but then again, we might be steering away from the eco-friendly stuff...