Losurdo Type Anatomy

Losurdo - Lichtensstein Review

I find the art work of Roy Lichtenstein highly iconic, capturing the golden age of comic book in different mediums. The set up of the exhibit took us on a journey following his career though his pieces, an illusion only broken by a guard coming up to someone telling them to delete the picture they just took because they didn't read the small sign next to the large piece of artwork that says no pictures. But i digress. My favorite part of the exhibit next to the art deco style sculptures was a small room that housed his rough sketches. With rough gestures drawings that make Mickey Mouse look evil and deformed, and show him testing out different patterns and colors for his haystack pieces. It is a small reminder that even though his work is know around the world and he is considered a modern day master, he still starts with a sketch.

While the beginning of the exhibit started big and flashy with famous works that are iconic to the Lichtenstein state. The primary colors catch your eyes. The pieces, ironic and memorable larger than life converse shoes and planner books. But it was the last room that I didn't want to leave. The room that I caught out of the corner of my eye when we entered the exhibit that I couldn't wait to see. The Chinese landscapes of Roy Lichtenstein.

Most people seemed to only take half a glance at the last room. A small white room that held some of the most beautiful combination of classic comic book and oriental landscape. With a bonsai tree in the center the room was calming and invites the viewer to take a step into a place where there is nothing but mountains shrouded in fog. I found this room to the be the best room in the exhibit.

I wonder how many people stopped to ponder 'what was the philospher on the hill thinking about?"

Losurdo Final

I was trying to go for an Art Deco theme when I started my music poster, but as I progressed in my work it took on a whole new feeling. 

My compositions are more like  pages for a child's story book. I like the feeling of the images. They are colorful and bright but still have the sad feeling of the song incorporated.

The song has a mellow tempo that picks up during a trumpet solo. I focused on more of the slower parts of the song. 

Nicolle Rezwin- Music Poster Final

 

Adele Rolling In The Deep

 
For my music poster project, I decided to do a poster on Adele’s song Rolling In The Deep. I chose this song because it has very deep meaning to it and I also love the sound of Adele’s voice. For the poster design, I decided to do a hand holding a scarred heart. The hand in this case is Adele looking at her scarred love life and how her boyfriend manipulated her heart when as she says “We could have had it all.” In the background, I decided to do fire because that represents anger and Adele had lots of anger toward her boyfriend who broke up with her.  In the design of heart I decided to put her lyrics of sadness such as “ The Scars of your love” and “you had my heart in your hand…” because that shows she's looking at what could have been with her holding the heart in her hand. For the typographic image of the fire, I decided to put her angry lyrics in the song. Such as “ There’s a fire starting in my heart…” and “I wish you had never met me..” I also chose a gradient of black and grey to show that she's coming out of the dark. She went to sad to becoming very angry. I think the symbols I chose really represent the song well and have a deep meaning to them just like the song.

In Rolling In the Deep, There are many repetitive choruses and beats. The repetitive choruses to the song include. “The scars of your love remind you of us They keep me thinking that we almost had it all The scars of your love, they leave me breathless I can't help feeling We could have had it all.” This chorus happens twice in the song. Another chorus that is heard at the end of the song is “(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me) We could have had it all (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep) Rolling in the deep,” This happens three times. Also numerous times during the song “Rolling in The Deep” is sung throughout. Repetitive beats such as a drum playing like a beating heart is playing steadily throughout the song.

The tempo and Rhythm of Rolling In the Deep starts out slow and then picks up energy as the song moves in to full force. Not until the very last note does the song slow down and come to a complete stop.

The structure of the music consists of Intro, Verse 1, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Verse 2, Pre-Chorus Chorus, Chorus,Verse 3, and then the final chorus.

The feelings evoked by Rolling In The Deep are normal feelings such as sadness, anger, and resentment. You feel sad for Adele because her boyfriend manipulated her and played with her heart. They could have had a happy life together. Anger is evoked in the song because of Adele’s lyrics such as “ I wish you would never had met me.” And also “ Don’t Underestimate the things that I can do.”The song has a soul/pop genre to it.

Emily Ryan - Music Poster

For this project I was inspired by the very simplistic example that was shown in class. I thought it was interesting to almost strip the music down to it’s basic parts but still be able to convey rhythm, emphasis, and pattern. I stuck with the theme of some Lady Gaga songs that I had heard acoustic versions of, because again I wanted to take the simple form of the complex music to turn it into the poster. For each song I wanted to try to convey mostly the emphasis of the lyrics, which I did my highlighting them with a certain font or style to the font. The only other form I used were some simple lines in order to create breaks and structure. For “Hair” I wanted to get across the sense of strength I hear in the song, especially from the lyrics themselves. I wanted to use a bold typeface (without being too bold) because it is in my opinion more impactful. I used a serif font called Hoefier Text, and for each of the compositions I also used a script text I got off of dafont.com called Never Let Go. For “The Edge of Glory” I used another serif font called Trajan Pro, but this one had a great amount of kerning, because the song lyrics are elongated on those certain words. In this instance I saved the script type for mostly the background words, so to speak, and the other type for the emphasis. For “Yoü & I” (I’m not sure about the umlaut, that is just how the song title is published) I used Minion Pro and the script font again. This song is slower in comparison so I put in the punctuation in hopes that it would slow down the composition. Over all for this project I wanted to create a sense of cohesiveness between the three separate pieces. I tried to do this by using similar fonts for all three, and I also made them all the same size. If someone did not know anything about these posters at all, I was hoping that by doing that they could at least sense that they were a set. I really tried to make everything line up for the most part as well. Overall I really enjoyed this project, and I liked the challenge of the simplicity. (However I might be interesting to go back and re-do this project using a different style that’s more complex!)

Mos Def Music Poster

Here is my Mos Def grafitti poster. I chose to do a grafitti style design poster because I feel that this not only represents the "Love" song more, it also represents Mos Def and hip hop. The beat has more of an urban feel to it which is why I had this poster look more urban. I also feel like this poster represents more of love in community as what Mos Def talks about. I honestly like this design better than my previous design. I chose this specific typeface for the word love because it feels more grafitti like and more authentic. I wanted to get that point of authenticity across with the different type designs that I have. What I've also done is put lots of grafitti like designs on my poster but I still have some space between the wall. The reason being is that when I was listening to a lot of the lyrics, Mos Def mentions more about building a community than a built community. I thought of building a community as a process of it's there but not quite. The reason why love is emphasized in this image is because love is what's emphasized in the song. Really he mentions many aspects of love including love of community and love of oneself which could manifest into love of community. Mos Def is one of my favorite artists which is why I chose to do this poster. I thought to myself, you might as well do an artist that interests you because you'll enjoy doing the poster more. I feel that this poster represents Mos Def's style because he's more of an urban poet than a rapper. This piece has more of that urban poetic feel which is what I was going for. I really liked how this poster turned out overall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGGsBSpg90

Bull - Typography Song Lyrics Final

The song I chose was DANCE by Justice. Having recently seen them in concert I found their music to be very inspiring when creating this piece. I used a simplistic black background with an emphasis on white as my main color for the type. Throughout the lyrics, are dashes of color that bring some life to the piece. Like the music video, I tried to encapsulate the variety of different styles that go into the words represented. Most of the typefaces I used were downloaded from www.Dafont.com. This website was extremely helpful in finding fonts that best fit what I was trying to represent. My favorite part of my own piece is the Pac Man C that precedes the word "Catching". The change of color along with the addition of the sentence looks amazing in the piece. I am very proud of the work I did in this class and especially this project. I hope to use my typographical skills I have acquired from this class in my animation and graphic design work.