University project- we had to choose a word or topic that we had learnt about during the semester and create a magazine spread about it. I chose 'juxtaposition' as it was always something that I loved to incorporate in my work. This spread was going to be printed using the Risograph printer, so I used Adobe Illustrator to create a Risograph effect using bitmaps, in order to see how it would look. 

The right side of this spread features a beautiful photo of the top of a building. This photo to me felt very editorial, professional, and sleek. I decided to edit this photo to mirror on the left side. I created a “glitch” effect and added a layer of magenta to juxtapose the greyscale simplicity of the original image and make the Risograph more interesting.

For the text, I chose to split the word to fit over both pages. I wanted to create something different with the text to link to the unexpected nature of juxtaposition. I made half of the word “position” creep up the side of the spread and hug the corner of the page. I also purposefully placed the ‘before’ image on the right side of the spread and the ‘after’ on the left. This feels like a very unnatural progression, and I liked that it was almost unsettling and not what would be expected of a spread of this nature.