Using stock fashion/celebrity images and information from the internet for the actual interview itself, I constructed a mock up of a fashion magazine interview with Mena Suvari.

I intend to experiment with the differences between the appearance of different magazines depending on their target audience, like the more expensive fashion magazines and the layouts of gossip type weekly magazines.

Click the thumbnail to view the project images.

They were told that from now on they had to provide a public notice at the bottom of the TV screen noting that they were altering the images. I thought that it was a little ridiculous as most cosmetics adverts, be it in magazines or on the television alter their images, if not with false eyelashes then with photo editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop.

It has become pretty much industry standard, so I thought I would create a tongue in cheek cosmetic range made by Photoshop. There are little features like instead of a lipstick colour - “flamingo pink” for example, there are the colour numbers instead like bf2324

This spread has alot less content than the magazine interviews but I wanted to try something a little different.

It’s occurred to me that both of these magazines have been in black and white so I’m going to try something more colourful next, I think it will have a very different feel to the two last ones but its something I’m interested in experimenting with.

The text in this layout is taken from an interview with the actress Christina Ricci and I feel that these images that are combined with the text really capture the mood of the interview.

(Also, I am aware that the front cover says “hiddem” this is what the letter N looks like, I plan on photo-shopping it in time, I just wanted to get it up on the site for now.)

This was mainly to keep myself motivated after graduating, keeping busy and keeping inspired are always high on my list and in this case I had an idea about colour and improvisation.

In this canvas I transferred a digital image of a womans face to the canvas and then hand illustrated the imagery around it.

The idea for this canvas was to explore text and visual descripton, the definition of mellifluous being “sweet or musical; pleasant to hear: the voice was mellifluous and smooth”

I tried to visually communicate these things by how the word was designed, this includes the typography and the application of the typeface.

What I liked about this was that really I could’ve picked a much more flowing font to use but I would rather make this quite structured font look flowing by the ornament applied to it than that.

I think this is probably going to be an ongoing project that I will just add to whenever I find a recipe that sounds particularly delicious or a photograph that really inspires me, food is definitely another passion of mine!

Here are some sample pages…

These and many other things had to be taken into consideration when designing the website and printed material, including business cards and a monthly updated newsletter.

What is different about Friends of Trendy is that they aim to highlight the “trend of the moment” in their image at the time, this requires a fairly simple web interface which could be updated easily.

This was the main project that lasted throughout my entire final year at university, so this allowed for alot of time to get really in depth with the research which was required.

By using the graphic language through the appearance of my designs I intended to show how even things that have no brand can fall subject to commercialisation and be packaged and promoted. This demonstrated that even things as diverse as the seasons could be boxed up and marketed as the next new *super product.*

This projects promotional website can be viewed online here

They come in sets of 3 and will be available to purchase in shops sometime this year. I will of course update this and my blog with photographs when they do, so make sure to check back regularly.
Please Note, as these mugs have not been produced yet, the mugs pictured are not the mugs for Whittard, but they are nearly identical. Aside from the backstamps which display “Whittard of Chelsea” instead of these ECP Design versions.