Valerie Sonnenberg
Design Challenge 4
The assignment was to create a book cover for Design Challenge 3 using various techniques, including glitching, pixel art, layering, and double exposure. 8 variants were required. Click on the scrolling galleries for full-size photos.
Ideation
Original ideas for a cover included glitching and double exposing the map of Rwanda, layering together photos of the kids, making a pixel portrait, glitching one of the village portraits, and cropping close to the eyes of a young boy for an exquisite-corpse type of photo.
Variants
The edits as described turned out as follows. The glitching was both the Channel Shift glitching and ASDF Pixel sorting.
Top 3 strongest covers
These are the strongest covers created based upon feedback from others. The feedback included that this double exposure was the best because it combined all of the images (tank, map and water), this glitch was better because it was more personal than the map, and the eyes were better because they were the most intense cover. In the end, I decided the double-exposed picture conveyed the best theme of the book.
Conclusion
This project allowed us to practice our our photoshop and glitching skills in an applicable manner. I chose this imagery to put together because they came from my favorite photos from the collection (elder and children), the purpose of our trip (water tanks and rain) and of course, the map of Rwanda since that's where we went. It was a good exercise in variation and practicing skills.