Here are my updated brand designs including: logos, press kits and a web designs.
Response: Foundation
Foundation is a great collection of inspiration in which each highlighted artists showcases a few works and gives the history/idea behind the design. This is a great read for our current project because it gives us insight into the decisions and solutions of each of the professional designs, allowing us to see how other professionals think.
Throughout the article I took note of a few designs that really appealed to me and that I thought were good inspiration for my upcoming covers:
Response: The Writer's Toolbox
As designers we tend to get caught up in the aesthetic and actual design, turning our backs on the critical thinking and planning that help formulate and define good design. In other words, we like to make shit look cool, but hate to plan accordingly. In Andrea Marks, Writing For Visual Thinkers, she not only explains the need of creative writing/planning in designing, but certain methods and how-to's for each. Andrea takes us through creating Mind Maps, Concept Maps, Freewriting, Brainwriting, Word Lists, Outlines, Critiquing, Reflective Writing, Journals and sketchbooks in depth.
Book Cover Research
Series
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession.Sequence
a continuous or connected series.
Sign
any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning.