Hasta La Ideas

I quite like having a tumblr account (I call it my scrapbook)—it is easy to simply add images into the visual log without much effort. Kind of addictive, actually! The images in my tumblr are mainly ones that have influenced the visual direction of UPPERCASE magazine. Colour, pattern, composition, typography, ephemera, photography, illustration, visual motifs, vintage aesthetics…

Dots, balloons, bubbles are a recurring graphic element in issue one and so you will see lots of them in my tumblr. I love the stark, graphic simplicity of these particular images from the Life archive (above) and so I referenced them for a spread in the magazine. I’m certainly not “America’s Next Top Model” but it was fun to create these simple photographs.