Category: AD138

Inspired by Heitor Magno, I did a self-portrait shoot and used them to create these ‘glitched’ edits. I added colour onto my face first before pixelating it so that I can have coloured pixelated blocks like Magno’s work. Also using blurred effects and 3D effects. I also played around with effects on photoshop to see what kind of ‘glitch’ effects I could use for other edits.

Heitor Magno is a photographer well known for his surreal double-exposure self portraits. Using manipulation on his images, often on his face like the images shown above. He incorporates glitch-like effects to convey emotions.

This was originally Jesse Treece inspired lanscape but I added in a floating ‘crystal-like’ geometric stone which is very reminiscent to Hvass & Hannibals’ editorial for Monki Magazine. I made it by cutting out triangles from anything blue coloured image I found.

Looking at Jesse Treece’s collages, I picked up his landscape collages that looks surreal and imaginative and used that idea to make my own collage. Creating my own landscapes of mountains. I had fun making these as I can get creative with it, had to create shapes that looks like mountains because I didn’t have much landscape images in the magazines I used to create these.

Above are typefaces I designed by hand for my zine which will be called ‘Glitch’. First one is just a simple design, neat and clean which is easy to read while the others are a little harder to read. The middle one, if I didn’t add a black outline of the letters it’ll be way too hard to read because it blended well with the RGB coloured background. The last one I took the word ‘Glitch’ and made it to make it look like it’s literal meaning which I enjoyed doing because you can’t go wrong with it at all – imperfection is key.

Below are the typefaces that I scanned and re-editing it. For example, I sliced the word ‘GLITCH’ in two and stuck them together and purposely not aligned it – again taking it’s literal meaning of ‘glitch’.

1. Contrast – Contrast refers to opposites. Contrast creates impact and provides a focal point. For example the focus could be large vs. small, dark vs. light, thick vs. thin, rough vs. smooth or complimentary colour systems.
2. Hierarchy – Visual hierarchy refers to the apparent order of information with respect to its importance. Hierarchy creates order, differentiates information and makes it easier to understand.
3. Alignment – Alignment refers to the underlying structure of design. Aligning elements with one and other helps to create order and visual relationships. Alignment should always be used to organise graphic elements. There are two major types of alignment – edge and centre.
4. Repetition – Repetition refers continuity. It simply means reusing the same or similar elements throughout your design.
5. Balance – Balance refers to the visual weight of the page. This is reflected by two formal structures – symmetrical and asymmetrical. Balance ties strongly with movement, tension and contrast. It is all about where the eye is lead through the design and how it’s supported by negative space.