Music and Design

Music is awesome. I love music, and can only put up with certain things while listening to music. For example, bus riding. I can't stand sitting there, forced to listen to conversations. I can try and block it out, but that's why I have music.
I want to take my love for music (and movies, but that comes later) and find a way to integrate it into my love of designs. Whether that involves designing CD covers, band posters or just concept pieces.

So, here's a few things I'm working on at the moment. I'm a big fan of the band Underoath, and I like their lyrics, artistic style, and pretty much everything. For their CD, "Define The Great Line", all the songs names are very interesting, so I wanted to visually represent the meanings (As I interpret them) behind the songs.

Track One...



and Track Two...



So! This is a work in progress... as is everything I'm doing. I'm horrible at finishing projects I start. I'm a very ambitious person, but I am horrible at completing things. I hope to finish all 12 tracks, print it out and bind it.

Photo Sources:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/379367
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/363563
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/951860

Other:
www.underoath777.com

My Typography Fills the Tubes

Verdana, Arial, Courier, Georgia, Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, Times New Roman.

These are my type selections. It's tough to decide how to represent myself with this very limited font selection. However, despite the billions of pieces of information flowing through these "tubes" that make up the internet, we are limited to approximately 7 fonts, out of the hundreds of thousands available. That's technology for you!

Anyhoo, this brings me to my first submission here. Type is amazing. Type can be expressive, without ever saying anything. That's the way I feel. Type can standalone, or it can hang out with an image. It can make an image, it can break an image. Type is underrated. Or it has been in the past, but it may be making a mainstream comeback.

Enough blither. I was to create a brochure for a conference on the future of robotics, and accompany it with a banner that could be displayed in the entrance of the conference. So, here's the cover of the brochure, and the inside showing all the important information, about times and speakers. I don't think I even need to mention that the image quality isn't fantastic. That's another limitation of these "Tubes".