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Design tip: use extraordinary imagery

Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration:

First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine illustration:

Dogfoose's broccoli trees

What an amusing way to channel the miniature look (achieved through tilt-shift photography) for infographics purposes! Is this is a subliminal technique to get children to eat their veggies? Or just a quirky case of nonsequitur?

It doesn’t matter if these questions get answered or not; what matters it that these questions were asked because of the design.

Next, we have Dark Roasted Blend’s otherworldly microscopic images. This one’s from the Olympus BioScapes competition, a photo of Drosophila larva eye neurons:

Drosophila larva eye neurons

We’ve gotten so comfortable with tiled textures, but why not take an asymmetrical, unpredictable image as a cornerstone for your design concept?

Why not make trends like photographic backgrounds your own and experiment in unchartered waters? These unusual sources should be a good starting point.

Originally posted on May 18, 2011 @ 1:08 am

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