"anabolic; d i s f i g u r e m e n t" | Final Published Book

Here is my final book. Really went out on this, tried to include all my styles of 

design & artwork.I didn't want a plain old, safe & sound designed book, 

with one or two colours throughout...which by all means can work effectively.

However, I wanted an outcome that holds loads of elements of colour, composition, 

texture, medias, type etc.

The general briefing I set for myself was to create a sense of; distortion, mixed personality, hectic & unusualness.

Some artwork is very clean and compositioned in a formal perspective, 

but then on the other handother artwork would be all over the place, deformed & in your face, 

but still using an effective composition

and use of white space. For example, If i wanted to create a spread with some complexity 

and wild use of grid layout,

but it felt a bit un-easy on the eye (which might be necessary) I'd apply some manipulated or 

clean type to rectify that

in a specific way.

anabolic; disfigurement by Jason Hand

WORK FOR LIGHT-BOXES/POSTERS...

Aiming to keep a consistent theme with my light box artwork; garish blues, deep/warm orange/pinks and blacks. I felt these colours worked nicely with the glow of the light. The white space occuring between imagery & type is also to help exaggerate and compliment the work, with the addition of the bright white light glowing through in between. I wanted something different, bizarre and daring, I feel I've achieve this, with the distorted and garish elements. Afterall, my goal for my final artwork was to appear, obscure, in your face, confusing and interesting.

(by the way: pictures are just screen shots, sorry for low quality)

MOCK_EXAMPLE_EXHIBITION_SPACE

Not fully accurate and not showing the final outcome, this is just to give me a supporting idea to what artwork works well in a specific order or composition.

I may use a wire to suspend the lightboxes...

POTENTIAL_LIGHT_BOXES

'looking on both sides'

Looking at inside and the outside of a body. Playing with imagery and merging bone x-rays with musclier striations from the outside; what a body builder would see in the mirror.

In somewhat, I've formed a hybrid of two sides to a steroid user, and only one side they see, the other they feel but choose to ignore.

Garish colours are perfect for my light-boxes. I want a distorted/deformed feel to lurch at the audience to show the serious and severity of steroid abuse, the side-effects etc. This I feel will reflect a unnatural bodybuilders personality.

SAMPLE SPREADS _ CONTINUED