Milan is a city with an extremely rich history, something reflected in its architecture.
The city showcases grand traditional buildings juxtaposed against sharp modern silhouettes.
This publication visually documents my inaugural trip to Milan, focusing on the buildings and the array of colours found on them.
This is the work produced for my graduation show.
Editorial work is something I thrive on but producing an editorial piece for a show and making it stand out was something I had never done before.
The brief itself was very broad with the only constraint being that the work must, in some way, revolve around colour.
My solution to the problem was to document an architectural exploration reflecting the grand traditional buildings juxtaposed against the sharp modern silhouettes of Milan, through a series of photographs – focusing on the colours found there.
The biggest challenge to overcome was focusing on colour. Colour is not something that is at the forefront of my practice and therefore working on a brief that required it provided a challenge. I overcame this issue by selecting my photographs that had the most vibrant and interesting colours, so that I could still work monochromatically but colour would be the stand out element.
My favourite aspect of the project was designing and curating my exhibition space. This was the real challenge as designing and producing publications is something I have done before. I wanted to create an area that was striking and memorable but did not overshadow the publication itself, as well as showing off me as a designer. I selected the most powerful photographs to provide colour and content to the space and positioned the vinyl to draw the viewer’s attention to the publication, creating a space that displayed the publication but also worked as an installation in itself.
