Visual inspiration

 Visual inspiration

Playing with textures

I really like this publication design created by Tyrone Williams; I like the use of super cropping images and gathering textures to generate abstract imagery. I was thinking I could use this method to censor images with super cropping and distorting the textures, which would help develop more of a playful sense of voice. The only limitation of this is that possibly using images takes away from the idea of Berlin's anti phone policy; maybe I could use more of a minimal approach and create the rule of no photos. 

I like the idea of not using any photos to link to the idea of Berlin's anti phone policy, so thought I could focus more on type. This example of typesetting plays around with adding serifs to distort elements of the type, which could be an interesting way to communicate censorship exclusively with type; I could definitely explore the concept of censored type, or combining serifs to distort certain components. 

Visually, I really like the idea of keeping the design approaches used within my project limited to a duo tone colour palette; I've used this visual language so far, and I think it helps push the project to not be too overwhelming in terms of the visual layout. I like the typeface used in this, at it feels very symbolic and features a lot of abstract shapes; this ties into the inclusion of symbols within my own project, as I want these to be strong motifs throughout. 

I also want to explore more physical elements of censorship, such as cutting out sections of the paper of my publication in order to hide elements of images. I could try packaging the actual publication in a CD, which could possibly provide an allusive tone; an approach I could possibly use would be to package it in a box that uses either a really maximalist visual language or minimal; I need to experiment with both techniques more in order to figure out which would work better.