Scottish illustrator Jonny Hannah is the third designer I ave decided to highlight for further discussion.
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| A Louis Armstrong tribute piece by Hannah. |
As a fan of bright, colourful and exciting artwork, Jonny Hannah's work attracted me straight away. His bold use of colour and mixed, exaggerated typography and mark making really inspired me and immediately captured my interest. I find his sporadic use of text really interesting (as seen above, there's no set 'design' or layout for where he positions his type faces). I feel almost that he considers his text as extra imagery rather than just 'writing'. Whereas I would consider the image and the type as two seperate elements I think that Jonny Hannah considers both as one entity.
Another aspect of his work which I find quite interesting are his mixed use of backgrounds in his work. As you can see from the image in this post of the late, great blues musician Louis Armstrong there are three areas which compose the background: blue striped, translucent pink and then deep black (which also incorporates the blue 'halo'-like effect around Armstrong's head). I find this technique very daring which would not necessarily work in all artwork but I think for Hannah's work it works extremely well and sets off the whole image.
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