Work's Communication Objective:
I was born and raised in London, UK and moved to Doha, Qatar with my family around four years ago. The desert is not a landscape I am familiar with, and was one that really left me in awe and wonder. I think a lot about how our physical environments, and their influence on our state of mind and way of life. When asked by our professors in class to design a postcard that described our life in doha to an outsider, it seemed to me as though there was nothing better to describe it than the desert landscape itself.
Process:
My process for this project really began with my limitations. I had decided I wanted to laser print black on to black paper. After prototyping this and being happy with the results I began to look through my own images of the desert and through books I had actually read about the desert for a quote to use on my postcard. I used photoshop to edit my image, making it black and white and then inverting it inorder for the lighter areas to be printed with the laser printer to create a semi glossy effect against the matte black paper.
Process of editing images in photoshop: making them black and white, inverting, erasing sections to have more space (back of postcard):
