J.J. Embleton - Catalog

J.J.'s Catalog Blurb:
The 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. With this nonsensical theme, it is a great story to look at in a different light. Considering this book with different ideas, the illustrations and designs have given a deeper and more serious adult feel to Alice's situation.

Ok so for my catalog I didn’t want to have like a specific or I guess I should say like an extremely unique theme so to make it interesting I just wanted to showcase a lot of photography of the nature and a lot of the books. To make all these pictures really interesting I really just wanted to create photos with tons of high contrasting light like the photos in my mood board. The rest of the explanations of my ideas for the catalog are written on my mood board so read them there if you want.

I was looking at a bunch of catalogs and it seems that the pretty standard shape is 8” x 10.5 or 10.75” I think I will have to work out with my photos how this will look but I may if I need a little more creativity go with a square format like 6” x 6” or something like that.

Spending budget will not be a ton on this project but I think that I will spend about $30 max on gas and ten about $30 max on printing. This will make the total $60 but that is also estimating a little bit high so I could be as low as $30 in total depending on where I travel and what kind of paper I get to print on.

J.J. Embleton-Project1 "A Deeper Darker Alice!"

So I don't know if we were suppose to post our newer stuff on the same posts as before but I did it anyway. Here below are first the cover and chapter title designs and the rest are most of my illustrations for my book. I have several more to go but let me know what you think of these so I can get an idea of how I'm doing.

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OK yeah i know... sorry, the title is cheesy! But I have been really into the late 1940s early 1950s Film Noir genre for a while, and decided that it would be pretty interesting to do all the illustration and design for Alice in that style. Anyway when i was looking up stuff for ideas i came across a ton of work that is more modern like comic book art and other art in this really edgy dark style. So that is what i am going to base my book on.

Here is my Mood Board with base style reference ideas, color schemes, and possible fonts.

Sorry, the thumbnail sketches are a little hard to see. In the 1st page there are my illustration thumbnails and basically i just want them to be really dark with hard shadows and strong silhouettes. The 2nd page are mostly my chapter title headings and same as the illustrations i want dark and contrasting but probably just with the typography. The 3rd page has a mix of ideas for the cover of the book but the bottoms ones are the Noir ones that i will be using mostly.

Hope you all like the ideas, comments appreciated!