Life of Pi Plot reminder

This is a very short summery of what happens through the novel but it has reminded me of the basics.

Life of Pi is divided into three parts. In the first, the main character, Pi, an adult, reminisces about his childhood. Piscine Molitor Patel ("Pi") was named after a swimming pool. He changes his name to Pi when he began to attend secondary school, because he was tired of being mistakenly called "Pissing Patel." His parents own a zoo. Pi was born a Hindu, but as the fourteen-year-old is introduced to Christianity and Islam, he starts to follow three religions. He tries to understand God through the lens of each religion and comes to recognize the benefits of each. Eventually, his family decides to move to Canada for political concerns.

In the second part, the boat to Canada carrying Pi's family and most of the animals in their zoo sinks! Pi ends up with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra, and an orang-utan named Orange Juice in a small lifeboat. The other humans and animals on the boat drown. The hyena tears off the zebra's leg and spends the next several days eating the zebra bit by bit. The hungry hyena kills "Orange Juice", despite her not being a natural prey of the hyena. Richard Parker eats the hyena because he was also hungry. Pi is left as the only other survivor. Pi finds food and water supplies on the boat, but as they grow scarce, Pi begins fishing for himself and Richard Parker, whom he keeps fed so Richard Parker will not seek to eat him. Pi also wants to keep Richard Parker alive because he wishes not to be left in solitude on the ocean. Pi ensures, with his knowledge as the son of a zoo-keeper, that Richard Parker considers Pi the alpha animal and therefore refrains from attacking the him. Pi manages to stay alive for 227 days, often half in delusion with thirst and hunger. The lifeboat reaches the coast of Mexico.

The third part is a conversation between two officials from the Japanese maritime department. They seek to ascertain why the ship sunk, so they interview Pi, but they do not believe him. Pi tells another story, in which the orang-utan is his mother, the zebra is a sailor with a broken leg, and the hyena is a cook who killed Pi's mother and ate the sailor. Richard Parker is Pi himself. Pi asks the officials which of the two stories they prefer. They say the story with the animals.

Wooly hat wrapping paper

Julian Gallash - Ballpoint illustration

I find these illustrations very striking, the ballpoint pen provides an interesting tone of colour along with a high attention to detail. I also like the added splash of bold, vivid colours and repetitive pattern.

The REAL Christmas colour spectrum.

I've been looking into different colour palettes I could use for the Chrismas themed wrapping paper. Wanting to stay away from the obvious (red, green, gold) I came across this fun colour spectrum made up of the 'real' colours of Christmas.
From a competition on the www.boooom website each colour chip has been sent with its own personal meaning and here are the best.

Retail Promotions and branding

Although I don't particularly like this design, I have included this onto my blog to show an example of how a banner design can be applied through out a shop environment. Then further on to bag design, tag labels, vouchers and other relating promotions. This is how I can see my Urban Outfitters brief developing further.

Garry Milne

Spoke to Ollie this morning, after viewing some of the stuff on my blog he recommended I look at the work of Garry Milne.

His imagery is very similar to the hand drawn prints I've been looking at, however they are produced using vectors. In this case they have been applied to a calendar however I think they could also make an interesting t-shirt print.

Stylized animal heads

These animal heads are great. Perfectly symmetrical with a limited colour pallet they could easily make modern t-shirt prints. I think, the use of gradients and triangular shapes make them appear to form the shape of a diamond or jewel, particularly the gorilla.

Sam Thomas

I have managed to find some copies of the original drawings used on the All Saint's t-shirts. Sam has drawn the surreal subject matter beautifully which appear to also convert well to print. I was surprised to see the same prints applied to a large range of different products across the shop. (e.g The football headed skull print works well on a mans top, though I'm not sure its appropriate for 2 year old's top).







I love this bottom print, even though its made of sheep skulls and birds, I think the combination of monochrome, colour and symmetrical layout create an unusual striking print pattern.

Some more wrapping paper ideas

The print pattern below reminds me of a photograph I took on holiday in Spain (above)
Perhaps I could take elements from the photograph to turn into a style of wrapping paper.





this zebra pattern is quite impressive even though it is a bit of a strain on the eyes.

These three printed posters are grate examples of how effectively you can create a poster with duo tone and monotone. Even with a limited colour palette you can still create an effective clear poster.

Vintage style posters

Poster to title sequence

For this Narrative project, I am also considering the visual relation of the poster designs and the title sequence. "I am not crazy about war movies, but this is another amazing mix of drawing and pictures done by "The art of the title sequence" team."

Screen printed Movie poster

I like this striking movie poster. The unusual choice of screen printing has enabled the designer to create this poster out of two bold colours, red and blue. I also like the use of layering to over lap the two colors slightly and create a deep purple as depth to the image. This printing process is also a means of reproducing many more copies with the same hand crafted look and quality.



MARCUS WALTERS, UK
“I chose Spirited Away, a film I have watched many times. The image was drawn partly from my own memories of the film and used simple paper cut outs to construct the silhoutted iconic images. The use of red and blue depict the central characters costume and the water featured throughout the film both of which are applied in water-based ink eluding to the dreamlike narrative of the story.”

Interesting drawing style

I love these pen drawings! At first i thought they were vectors because of the solid blocks of black and white. But on closer inspection you'll see carefully hand drawn patterned detail to create textured hair and clothing fabric. Again I think these sorts of images can be applied to print to make a modern style t-shirt design. Perhaps I could adopt a similar drawing style to apply to my print designs.

Super hero posters

I think these vector, vintage style posters are great! Simple and clear.
Not to sure what the point of them is, but they work well as a set.