Wow, this weekend was long! In a positive way. I’ve read my first fictional book for a long time (I do read. But only non-fiction, actually), meaning I did something for my emotional education – and meaning, I stayed up till 2.30 am because it was so freaking exciting.
On sunday, we also went to the Bauhaus Museum here in Weimar; that’s a very small museum (one room), but still inspirational. I was surprised how much I actually like the Bauhaus style. I always thought: “Bauhaus style – yeah, that’s good old stuff.” But yesterday I thought: “Bauhaus style – that’s really good old stuff!” I was surprised to see a lot of (imho) unbalanced compositions in the images of especially the Bauhaus students, but I got a lot of inspirations from the architectural ideas. And I really enjoyed the “Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch” sketches by Paul Klee (I fell in love with them a few years ago in an excellent Paul Klee exhibition in Berlin, and it was great to get reminded of them). And I saw that Itten did something similar, and another Bauhaus professor as well: They build models with combining mathematical / geometrical concepts and visual views. And have I mentioned that I love models? I love models. (See my last post for an example.)
So I came back from this weekend and sat down at my computer to put all the visual inspiration, processed by my brain, on the screen (and later on the mag page). And I like the result! At the top you can see the Online Poker story and the Silk Road Drug Seller story (latter one accompanied by microscope images of (liquid) crystals. I tried to find high-res microscope photos of drugs, but sadly couldn’t find any.) I think the contrast to the other, “old-media” pages works nicely with a visual language like this.
Also, I had a nice (infographical) idea for the table of contents. Also, I started to work on the info graphic for the Google M&A facts. Also, I only need to design the Video Games main story, the Get Bought chapter (four double pages) and the misc part. Sadly, I have no idea for the misc part yet. Let’s see what I’ll produce tomorrow.