To Display or NOT To Display

.........not a very forgiving shelving unit. . .especially for 'To Kill a Mockingbird' squashed right in the rigth hand corner!
Then again I suppose the classic does the jos of selling itself so it doesn't exactly require pride of place like other books might.

Personally, I'd prefer to see 'To Kill a Mockingbird' displayed somewhere prominant like this.....but I suppose I'm slightly biased seeing as my world is revolving around this novel at the moment!

Childrens books! What could be more fitting :)Know your audience!

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Theatrical Trailer - © Universal Pictures

I did read the book before watching the movie and, as always, the book was probably better from the point that I could create my own characters and settings, but all the same I do think the movie does an extremely good job of sticking to the essence of the novel.
Gregory Peck is a perfect Atticus Finch and I love the Southern accents. This is just the trailer but I recommend you watch the whole thing, as well as reading the classic novel itself of course!

DID YOU KNOW.... 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is Harper Lees only published novel!

Previous Cover Illustrations

This is the first published cover for the novel in the 1060's. Though it has been re published many times since, a 50th Anniversary publishing uses the first cover design.

This is the most recently published cover for the classic novel.

Somewhere in the midle comes my favourite jacket cover for the novel and the one I will always associate with it . I like the simplicity of the illustration and find it just enough.

To Kill a Mockingbird

We are into the Visual Communications ranking project and our research brief is to be done on a novel of our own choosing.

I choose 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee because I loved reading it and there is always something new to learn from this novel no matter how many times you read it. I studied it inside out and back to front for my Junior Cert and I'm still not sick of it, which can only be a good sign!

The relationship between Scout and her brother and the recluse Boo Radley is one of my favourutes, as he leaves them surprises in the hollow tree and in the end comes to their aid when they are attacked on the street. Though they had never met there was a strong friendship which I believe grew out of love and understanding.

Back to Basics

After going around in circles ....as you saw.....with complicated ideas and making everything more difficult than it had to be, I went back to the brief and focused on representing the word 'negotiate' simply but effectively. I think it has worked, combining the argumentative speech bubbles to form one negotiating speechbulle of agreement. The colours combine to make ourple and the figures finally look at eachother.

Negotiate : Revisited!

In the end I went back to my original idea of the negotiatng woman. I put her in a more complicated setting and developed further what she was negotiating. Between balabcing, avoiding traffic, saving food from the hawk and minding her child all while on roller skates , I think she is demonstrate how to negotiate pretty well!

The Business Side

Negotiation in the board room?

My basic idea was to have the office chairs shaking hands instead of the office workers.....I fear it hasn't worked too well....but I did learn a lot about Photoshop in the process so I can't complain!

Over Tea?

Negotiation over tea?! How could you say it better!

However, I didn,t realise at the outset that there wasn't in fact any tea in this cup, so I had to start again!

Photoshop Illustration

This is my first attempt at photoshop. Our second brief was to do with illustration and my word is still 'negotiate'.

My idea was to show a housewife negotiating her way around many daily chores as if it were of no trouble. Unfortunately this image seems to say 'juggling' more than 'negotiate' so I quit at this stage while I was ahead!

However, I would still like to work on this idea and illustrate it in a different way as I feel it would be efffective.

Signage and directions?

Although Ireland is renound for its lack of road signage I did manage to find a few scattered around the city!

I thought of making up the word negotiate in photoshop using only letters obtained from road direction signs.

This arrow sign could replace the 'a' if tilted a bit to the right,

and this arrow could represent the 't'. It's worth a try!

From Dreams to Reality

Just the beginning of me trying to illustrate the idea of negotiating your way into a parking space....I wanted negotiate to be written all around the white line of the parking space initially...but I didn't think the idea was working properly so I settled for one! Trial and error I suppose!

I got a toy car to park itself in the word negotiate , just for good measure!

Typography

......I could be on this site for years!

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