Elusive Echoes: A Poster Series
The objective of this project is to show typographic expressions and attributes and to show an ability to explore differing conceptual ideas through a discourse community. Posters were created with an underlying concept with various components that differ and personalize them. A visual system was implemented, as well as learning how to use physical supplies to bring this design to life.
Process
This project started by researching the three poets assigned to the elusive echoes theme. They all showcase and enhance their differences in their art, which was their underlying concept.
Patti Smith
She is a visionary for the ugly truth of human-rights issues, mainly involving injustices of women through the use of poetry and punk. In her most popular works like rape, seventh heaven, k.o.d.a.k., Easter, and Just Kids, Smith remains unguarded to express her feelings about discrimination in the world.
Charmaine Lee
She is a methodical yet improvisational individual who believes that music should come straight from the heart and soul. She believes that because it is more moving and meaningful that way and there is nothing more connecting of people than music and creation.
JJJJJerome Ellis
He is an unpredictable force that commands attention in his meaningful and heart-wrenching music, poems, and stories. In that, he often meets his disability with curiosity, lovingness, and patience in juxtaposition to the stigma around stutters and other inequalities that exist in the world.
Freeplay
The next step in the process was to do a free play activity, physically printing out keywords and lines from their poetry and music to experiment with. The way that the images looked going through the scanner, while also manipulating and cutting them fit within the concept of breaking bounds and going against the norm.
Digital Iterations
Charmaine Lee
The first ideation was focusing on breaking up the sounds and words Charmaine used in her performances, but it felt too scattered and not intentional. The second iteration was still too unorganized, but was narrowing down on the idea of the overwhelming sounds that Charmaine specialized it. For my final iteration, the scale of the words encapsulated the importance, while also highlighting the intentional dysfunctionality of her work.
JJJJJerome Ellis
Firstly, space was implemented through breaking up the words. The next iteration used more negative space and activated it, but the words seemed stagnant. The final iteration took elements of space, scale, and hierarchy to put emphasis on the stutter through the negative connotations and thoughts behind it.
Patti Smith
In the first iteration, there wasn’t enough active negative space and the scale of the words was too large. Angles in the second iteration were trialed to activate negative space. The last iteration worked with active negative space and textured background, hiding the negative stigmas and stereotypes by the ideas and quotes Patti lives and makes music by.
