Post 40- CD Covers

The system of symbols would ideally be placed in contexts where people make decisions about what music to listen to. Above are some designs for physical format sleeves.

The proportion of symbol to name is intended to facilitate music exploration as the hierarchy would mean that the first object seen by the audience would be the symbol, which may serve draw attention from certain tried and trusted names and towards the visualised song.

In-keeping with my guideline that the music should determine the visual it follows a minimal design, aimed at presenting the symbol with as few visual distractions as possible.

Tracks with similar sound symbols are shown to the track symbolised on the sleeve to further encourage music exploration.

Post 39- Poster

One of my final pieces, a poster which demonstrates how the symbols can be used to compare and contrast various songs. This poster would be available at festivals where people could use it to help them explore new music as key tracks by a selection of the artists playing smaller stages (or up-and-coming artists) are visualised alongside a reference point of several well-known tracks by the headline acts. I chose to use this year's Bestival to provide the example festival because of its reputation for featuring an abundance of artists from an eclectic range of genres in addition to the big names.

The poster, like the other contexts in which the symbols appear, is devised upon the principle that the music dictates the visual. This is especially apparent in the layout which has the symbols grouped/organised by key and tempo (with higher tempo tracks on the right and slower ones on the left and the keys descending down the page)

Exporting the poster from the original vectors to a print-friendly format was a logistical hurdle as the shapes would gain extra, non existent details when exported to .pdf or .eps formats, with the final versions of anything using the symbols eventually needing to be saved as .jpegs to appear as they did on screen.