Some Aesthetic Research

Since this book is going to exist both digitally and physically, I thought it might be constructive to look at some examples of collections of photos in a digital realm, i.e. photographers' portfolios and image blogs on tumblr, and so on. I might do another few posts in this vein with similar or different media, like more image blogs or even a few of the image-heavy magazines I've been looking at lately, but for now I'll focus on the things I've looked at over the past week.

I'm focusing on blogs and portfolios that go outside the usual blogpost style. There are some interesting layout techniques on show. Screenshot time!

This is a screenshot of my friend Tonje's portfolio site (no nepotism here, trust me). The images can be scrolled left-to-right, but more than that I like the clean, evenly-spaced look. It feels classy. Gonna have to find out what fonts she used too.

What's next are a few screenshots of an image blog called NEUROMÆNCER, a blog run by one Sophie C. Andreson wherein she collects and splices found imagery. Scrolling down the blog takes you through a subtly shifting set of colour schemes. This could inform the book, help tie things together visually. Each emotion we use a different colour scheme? Not sure how feasible that is, but it's an interesting thought. The closely-stacked layout is also perhaps not the right approach for what we're doing.

Next up is a screenshot of allthingseurope, a popular tumblr blog of scenic photography. Again, it uses the stacked-image look, which reminds me of the way people used to hang paintings in galleries. Perhaps not the best approach for the book, but perhaps an interesting thing to consider. 

Dat clean design and font tho.

And finally, this is a screenshot of a visual diary of sorts, run by British journalist and comics writer Kieron Gillen. The images are posted big and bold. They're stacked like the last two blogs, but with more space to breath. It's not so much a wall of images as the other two. I like the clean, squared-off design. It looks like  some kind of hipster techno-fanzine, but with all the rough edges snipped off.