Iain Macarthur
This piece of design I think influences my mind to be more wild and spontaneous with design, although Iain Macarthur is an illustrator I find his work to be very inspiring when it comes to detail and making an eye catching impact. This piece could be communicating many messages, I feel like its sending a message to do with sanity. With the labyrinth like patterns and shapes behind the mask like face it shows that everyone has to ability to be completely free with your mind and no one can really control it.
Greg Coulten
This piece of design is one of my main influences in design. I love the traditional victorian feel to the typeface containing a lot of detail. Leaving it black and white makes a greater contrast and impact on the page not disturbing the focus on the detail. The serif 'E' looks fairly modern which appears to be wrapped in a vintage like flower, this I feel communicates not that no matter how much graphic design will progress in the future its important to remember those aspects of type from the past and where it has came from.
Aron Jancso
This example of design again I am inspired by because of the serif typeface. I am a huge fan of traditional looking serif typefaces and this one seems very elegant yet powerful. With the ascenders and descenders extended and the pretty typeface I could imagine this printed on a fictional fantasy book. Each letter appears to have a slight curve however the typeface still is understandable and clear and could even be used in a small body of text.
James Zambra
This is a more modern example of design. Another thing that influences and inspires me are bold colours and patterns/shapes. These overlapping shapes and colours creating depth to the page making it much more interesting. The vivid colours and pointed edges to the shapes could communicating loud and exciting music and sound in some way, the shapes could also be letters placed on the page with half of them cut off giving a sense of curiosity as to what the purpose is for.
Jonathan Quintin
This is a more practical example of graphic design. It is a wedding invitation but showing the journey on how a couple met and got to this point of their relationship. I love the subtle illustrations that go with the information such as the 'Breaking Bad' typeface with the periodic squares around the Br and Ba, unless you watched the show you would not understand the purpose of it. I also think the colour scheme works extremely well as it is elegant and bold. The blue typeface contrasts with the pink illustrations and border making it have an eye catching impact.
