Concrete Poetry or Not So

The first illustration, by Kate Sutton, shows how typography can be used within an illustration or image meaning that the image doesn't have to be completely replaced. This will allow our group to maintain a typographical based project but including very appropriate illustrations.

Also, rather then making objects out of words, we could make words out of appropriate objects as shown here. This is almost a reverse of concrete poetry and is another

 effective typographical tool which could be incorporated into our website.

Collage Illustration

These illustrations by Tim Rehm & Tim Surken use collage effectively to create a dsitiinctive visual style.

The second image shows how this style could be used in imagery similar to our subject. I feel our audience could relate to this style and it would also be effective for creating unique navigation on our website.

Illustration Style

Following on from Anna's & Toby's illustration research, I found this piece by Takeru Toyokora. Using felt and card, pieces are cut out and laid down to create a flat piece of artwork that appears full of depth. This method could be used to create an interesting and effective website. The visual style is very distinctive and one that could relate to our topic and audience.

Playing with seeds packets...

Toby

Following on from what Anna's been looking at, I found some contemporary illustrators that have a similar approach to Emily Gravet.

Michelle Thompson




Toby

style ideas

Some images from Little mouse's big book of fears by Emily Gravet.

The rough illustrations and torn up collages look quite effective, using images like this would give our site a tactile feel even on screen.

Typographic Plant

This is just an idea about having a typographic tree as the home page. The idea is that you start with nothing and then click on the seeds or seed packet to plant the seed, then click on the watering can to water etc, there could also be weather controls etc. 

Once the tree has grown the visitor could roll over one of the words to find the links to the other pages.