Making Waves: 50 Years of Music Icons
TYPOGRAPHY II
Graphis New Talent Silver Award 2023︎︎︎
Innovators of music, these artists made waves that forever altered the music landscape as we know it today.
Analog experiments
Rule-based experiments
Deciding on a direction
The use of glass together with the display type create a visual metaphor that felt akin to the experimental waves of impact these artists left.
Building on the modular typeface
Finding a typeface pairing
Colors to reflect each musician
Glass textures as visual metaphors
The end solutions
The display type imitates the contrasting organic and geometric nature of the glass and his music, as it holds its own structure while also obeying the forms of the glass.
The type emerging from the glass dances across the page emulating Madonna's stage presence as a singer, choreographer, and dancer.
The horizontal movement of the type across the composition furthers the feeling of the many layers of vibrations running into each other.
Pursuing a second solution
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