The solution is in the problem.

After these 3 weeks of ranking my love for visual communications has grown. I have enjoyed every part of designing, drawing and making my ideas for this project. Researching other artist and designers work has been a interesting and a big help, seeing the range of materials used and the different scales of the work. Its not all about 2D and using the computer! Although, I have spent a fair bit of time on photoshop.

A few ideas for the book cover:

 I changed the type and made it smaller.

I took the collar out as I didnt think it needed it, the message of Church V Chocolate was portrayed by the chocolate cross on its own.

This is my final book cover design:

I changed the black background to a leatherette background to make it look more religious and I changed the size of the font.

A bit of typography and advertising.

 Book design. Andrew Haslam.

 Outdoor types.

 Milkxhake.

 Advert for Microsoft.

 Uwe Loesch.

Avdert for United Colours of Benneton.

Photos taken for my alternative book.

Alternative books.

 Victoria ranibowe. Dream journal drawings 2004.

 Beryl taylor. The silk book.

 Lucy may schofeild. Preforated love notes 2003.

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 Linn C Jacobs.

 Judi Riesch.

 Lisa Renner.

 

Kate farley Inside out 2002.

 Ingrid siliakus. Innerings 2006.

 Rob ryan. Where you are.

Ellen Bell. Conversations 2007.

For All Seasons by Andreas Muller

http://www.k10k.net/issues/133/

Graphicdesignblog.org

 Differences between male and female graphic designers:

http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/gender-affects-graphic-design-project/

 Negative space photography:

http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/negative-space-photography/

One of the best April fools day jokes.

Back in the hazy, distant days of 1977, the annual japery of April Fool's Day was far from a fixture in the UK's newspapers. But then The Guardian ran a seven-page feature on the remote island nation of San Serriffe, in the Indian Ocean – complete with descriptions of its two main islands, Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse, its capital Bodoni, and its ruler, General Pica. Of course, it was all an elaborate joke, with most of the names being punning references to typographer's terminology. But huge numbers of people fell for it – aided perhaps by the fact that the paper roped in many legitimate advertisers, including Guinness and Kodak, to play along with the gag. The Guardian's office switchboard was flooded with phonecalls from gullible people wanting more information on the fictitious islands.The San Serriffe joke is notable not only for sparking the British press's fondness for April 1 tomfoolery, but also for being the most sustained untruth ever printed by the Guardian that wasn't the result of a spelling error.

A cool website with clever graphics.

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2009/02/06/best-creative-clever-some-funny-print-ads-best-print-advertisements/

Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c&feature=related

Lyrics:

Well I don't go to church on Sunday
Don't get on my knees to pray
Don't memorize the books of the Bible
I got my own special way
I know Jesus loves me
Maybe just a little bit more
I fall down on my knees every Sunday
At Zerelda Lee's candy store

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied

Well I don't want no Anna Zabba
Don't want no Almond Joy
There ain't nothing better
Suitable for this boy
Well it's the only thing
That can pick me up
Better than a cup of gold
See only a chocolate Jesus
Can satisfy my soul

When the weather gets rough
And it's whiskey in the shade
It's best to wrap your savior
Up in cellophane
He flows like the big muddy
But that's ok
Pour him over ice cream
For a nice parfait

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Good enough for me
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Good enough for me

Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel so good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied

Out and about

I went in to a few book shops and charity shops to look at the wide variety of book covers. These are some that I liked.

Book reviews for Chocolat.

'Moody and atmospheric... Harris writes confident and stylish prose... A richly textured tale, evoking the claustrophobia of village life, and its amusements, with an impressively light touch.' - Independent.


'This novel is mouthwatering... You find yourself unable to stop until you've finished feasting on this delightful, quirky, sensuous story. This is also a feelgood book of the first order. One to curl up with. To luxuriate in... So full of coulour, tastes and scents, that as you are lured by the plot and the wonderful descriptions, your senses are left reeling. This novel is a celebration of pleasure, of love, of tolerence.' - The Observer.


'A chocolate soufflé of a novel - with a pleasantly bitter aftertaste.' - The Times.


'A tale guaranteed to titillate the palate and lend sustenance to the heart... A romantic, playfully rebellious, lush and ultimatley moving spirit that makes Chocolat as tempting as chocolate itself.' - The Scotsman.


'Joanne Harris's prose is as lucious as her lists of mouth-watering recipes... her fairy-story is seductive.' - Sunday Telegraph.


'A delightfully wicked novel that celebrates the most tempting of luxuries. Beautifully atmospheric and packed with local colour and detail, the book... marvellously captures scenes of French provincial life.' - Country Living.


'Bitter and sweet bite into each other, balance each other. Its a delicious read, witchy and decadent. Sumptuous descriptions of bonbons and cakes slink across the page, hints of magic and evil.' - Time Out.


'... Chocolate is her metaphor for both the serpents apple and the milk of human kindness.' - Daily telegraph.


'Harris tells her story well. It is at times touching, often witty, with some wonderfully vivid descriptive passages; you come away from it with an acute awarness of colour and with the smell of chocolate lingering in your nostrils.' - Spectator.


'Theres something witchy and decadent about Chocolat. Delicious descriptions of pastries and bonbons slink across the page and hints of magic flash through the story.' - Elle.

Photos of scenes from the film