Jan.06.10

Musical Typography

Ever since my parents bought The Beatles: Rock Band game a few months back, I’ve really been indulging myself in The Beatles’ music, movies, etc. Not only have they been dominating my whole iTunes library, but I noticed that they are even seeping into my schoolwork.
Examples: For one of my English assignments, we were asked to do a biography of any famous person we wanted, and I ended up doing it on John Lennon. For Journalism class, we have to start a kind of journalism blog and I decided to name mine, “Here Comes the Sun”. I incorporated their A Hard Day’s Night LP cover into a Photoshop collage I had to make in the beginning of the year.

I guess you could say this is my way of sharing my current obsession with the world.

Where am I going with this? Well, today my Media Arts/Communications Technology teacher introduced us to a new strand in our course: Typography Our task is to first pick a song we like and then choose a nice font that connects to our song of choice. Next, we have to use only the lyrics of that song to create a piece of typographic artwork in Adobe InDesign.

My plan is to choose a song by The Beatles. I haven’t decided on which one, but I’m leaning towards their long medley called Golden Slumbers, Carry that Weight, and The End so that I can include the really great line at the end of The End:

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

Some examples of what I mean by “typographic” artwork:

Self Portrait by sALuUm

Rihanna by Cyril Attias

Portrait by hanter-x

You can click here for more great examples…

PS. I’ve decided to post my Project 365 photos on Tumblr: h365.tumblr.com

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Comments:

Posted by Bonnie on Jan.07.10:

Aw lucky ! My school’s too poor to afford a DSLR haha. Lucky that you get to take it out whenever you want Yeah, sometimes I do manual focus when I feel like it , real fun ! Typography is truly amazing ! I would really like to learn how to do it ! Takes a lot of time I guess.

Posted by emma on Jan.08.10:

wooooowwwwwwwww!
the rihanna one is pretty amazing
=) i can’t wait to see what you do
your major sounds so fun!! i wish i chose something fun.. instead i did biology lol =_=

Posted by Leanne on Jan.08.10:

i love typography and to combine it into a portrait sounds magic! can’t wait to see what you produce. i studied the beatles’ sgt pepper’s lonely hearts club band album in year 10. not my favourite album of theirs but that album and many of their songs and performance technique revolutionized the music we hear on the radio and see on stage today.

Posted by Rachel on Jan.08.10:

Mhm, The Beatles is the legend, though they are not my type of idol band. But their songs are inspiring.

Wow, typography is taking over. They look really great. The Rihanna one is so pretty. I’d really really love to teach myself making those kind of stuffs, but I think it kind of requires a lot of effort.

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