Our project was to design a connotative magazine article. I chose to do a Half-Life 2 article, and what better way to start than to print off the article, replace some areas with rips and writing, slips and tangles, crumple it up, tape it, crumple it again, scan it and see what happens. It turned out pretty gritty, but war is not a clean sort of business after all.

The colours were not edited at all. Initially, everything was done with white paper and black pen, and after it was scanned and a negative image filter was applied, it came out how it is. The tape sure seemed to create some nice subtle shadows for the scanner.

Half-Life 2 Connotative Typography Poster