Collage Development Week 4

After critique i had quite a few ideas to go from, i fortunate to get some crucial feedback i found useful such as:

• Type needed to be detailed
• Widows and orphans across the board
• The key needed to changed it wasn't as understandable as i had hoped.
• Only 2 tiers of information was able to be seen, i knew this before hand and is one the reasons i wanted to change my collages.
• the colours of each page weren't able to be cohesive, this didn't help having a range of colours either
• Grid work was good, type possibly too small.
• Clear hierarchy 

Right after class i started looking for new ideas for my collage and layouts, i tried to tackle it together, although this could have worked quite well i just couldn't find anything that worked.

I really liked the flip city spread but didn't think my photos alone could do enough justice to satisfy the three element, this is something i would of tried more to do if i could do it again.

I was really excited to try work with isometric shapes again as i had done a project last year using that style and thought it would be right up my alley.

I was using google maps to try create simplified isometric versions of the city and was going to take that idea to the my other spread after creating the first building i tried duplicating it and moving around to get and idea almost instantly i knew this isn't what i wanted to do either.

I also had a quick play around with double exposing the photos onto the cars themselves but this unfortunately put the cars as the primary element instead of the route and place.

After finding some new inspiration from old styled car adverts like the Volts wagon

 I tried my own, i really liked how it fit my criteria i could literally show 3 elements, the route, the car and the city.

Unfortunately as you can see it almost looks like a direct copy of my inspiration, it didn't help i used the same colours but i couldn't use this.

I was starting to get frustrated by this point but after finding some new inspiration

This design really stood out for me, key things i liked about it were:

• one side showed the terrain, this was perfect for me 
• the other showed a photo representation of the place
• and the line it self, this could be used as a path, or in my case the route of the destination.
• i also was really interested in the texture that it had over it, i want to look into textures for my final brochure print, i think it will tie it all together really well.

Back to the drawing board again

This time i approached incorporating the three elements quite literally, i wanted the car, route, scene and time of day to evident. almost like it was pieced together.

My first attempt came out like this

At first i was going to add the car as another layer on top somehow, here i hadn't done that yet.

What i liked about this collage:

• i'm really liking how the terrain contours came out
• the dissolved photo to get rid of the hard edges
• using the route to break apart the two images

What i didn't like:

• how illegible the route was
• not having the car incorporated into the picture.
• including the type in the collage it was overkill

For this variation i included an overlay of a sunset over the circle which im really liking, and also included the car into into composition. 

Only things i wasn't liking was how it was still hard to interpret the route and also the bush essence.

This is my final for my composition. The changes i made was bringing back the colour to the scene and not the car as it wasn't my focus point, this brought back the bush essence with the greenery. I also added a thick stroke around the route this helped define the element and fitted it perfectly. The last change was too add a halftone line pattern to show water.

My final collages

 Im really happy with how all of these turned out, i kept the circle with x diagonal pattern consistent amongst each.