Anna CarmodyLSADYR 1

For this project I chose to the quote, Curiosity killed the cat, But satisfaction brought it back. Initially I wanted to focus on the curiosity and exploration as a theme for the quote. But then after designing thumbnails and feedback, it was clear the main probertites of the quote where the words, Curiosity and Satisfaction together. 

I changed the rock that would crush the cat to a box since I thought the rock would have been to random, while the box is a reference to Schrodinger's Cat

I like the “Conviction” and “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy” for there use of type and the layout of it.

I found the “Knockout” cover interesting 

I wanted to look at book covers with lines/strings to see how they can be used for my design. The examples I found where “The Story of a Brief Marriage”, “The Assosiation of Small Bombs” and “On Trains: An Exploration”.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18398627-conviction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1298834.Against_Happiness

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25786935-knockout

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220955-the-story-of-a-brief-marriage

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25810398-the-association-of-small-bombs

“La Chat Noir”, Théophile Steinlen's 1896 is a poster for an entertainment establishment in Paris.

I of course looked at this image in my researched for my poster/book cover for the cat.

Working out the position of the cat.

After some feed back I was pointed out to me that the broken glass element I wanted to include in my design would confuse the purpose since it has such a negative connotation. 

Inspiration photos I gathered when researching my project.

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/310396599326845405/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/396950154626549918/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/310396599326845403/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/310396599326514766/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/310396599326515367/

After getting feedback from a peer group discussion I realized I didn't have a clear different with the style I wanted to go with and my concept was missing some elements from my quote.

I didn't have emphasis on the “satisfaction” of the quote, it was suggested to be to look at this part more and I was give a suggestion to look at how cats knock things on the ground, like glass, and how there is great satisfaction of something just shattering. When I looked at pictures of glass it reminded me of the game game cats cradle with the string.

Common Room,  Ayala Bay branch Mural

When I was researching astist I was drawn to this mural, and expecialy the typography of the words. I love the glow of the words that makes it look like a neon sign.

https://www.junedigann.com/illustrations?pgid=jfmg9g9n-572620f6-5604-4737-94f0-8fb340b48f5a

In response I want to try my hand at the style of the lettering to gave that glow.

For the workshop I made another mind map with my quote after more though on the words and research I have done so far.

We had a time limit to make our thumbnails to make sure we didn't overthink to communicate our ideas. Then we critiqued each other's designs and chose what ideas we like the best, to help to develop them in the next stage.

Next we repeated the process to make only 4 larger thumbnails give the advice we got.

The first is me expanding the grave tombstone. I wanted to make it more abstract, I want to represent the concept of life and deal in my quote with the cirle and 2 colour. Red for life and grey for death.

Next thumbnail was continuing with the relating circles and the question mark.

The third thumbnail I was using the cats cradle idea that was liked by the group so make a geometric design. I imagined hands making a C with thread and even did it myself to get the lines right. I like the red in other thumbnails so used it for the thread. This make me think of the red strings of the faiths in Greek Mythology that represents out life lines.