Posts with the tag 'music'
Check out this pretty cool infographic (from last.fm) showing the music that New Yorkers listened to compared to the music the rest of the country listened to in 2009. It’s interesting to see the curves of how much earlier certain music was adopted, and in greater numbers compared to outside of New York, and how much more diverse the rest of the country is in comparison.
Plus the information is displayed in such an interesting, colorful and easy to comprehend way. More like this, please.
Tags: information, music
February 25th, 2010
The assignment: Take a CD that you think is badly designed and design new cover art for it. This art should be able to evoke the feeling that one gets when listening to the record or a song. Bring in the song to class to play along with your design.
Soooo, I had a hard time finding a badly designed album cover that I could actually come up with a design for. I decided to go with The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse because even though I personally find the original art iconic (since it was one of my favorite albums ever), it’s still pretty basic and there was room for more interpretation. I am going to use Trailer Trash as my song for the redesign. I think it evokes what I need it to.
Here’s the original:
Tags: corin, music, school
February 22nd, 2010
How Fucking Romantic is a blog done by a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers where they are posting either an illustration, comic, short story, etc depicting each of the songs off Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs. I like it.
Tags: art, music
January 21st, 2010
The Journal of Popular Noise is the brain child of graphic designer, musician and old school Seattle friend, Byron Kalet.
Unbeige says: Inject some old-school grit (vinyl records) and glamour (letterpress packaging) into your iTunes greatest hits library with the Journal of Popular Noise, an “audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact.”
The design on this thing is amazing, and Byron usually puts on a pretty good release party, too.
Check out The Journal of Popular Noise here, and interviews with Byron here and here.
Oh, and did I mention you can buy it?
Tags: music, Seattle
November 6th, 2009
Just wanted to post this for my Ohio friends, since I saw this, decided it was cool, and I actually know people from Ohio now.
Then I looked at the rest of Mikey Burtons stuff and realized it made me super happy. Like these:
Mikey Burton is from Philly (by way of the midwest)–check out his designs here. The show posters are good stuff.
Tags: music, poster, print
October 13th, 2009
