Movement Electronic Music Festival Poster/Image

This is the 2010 Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit. It is 3 days of electronic music, 4 stages,  and about 100 artists. I really like this poster/image. I love the background. It looks like it is exploding and I think it fits well with the electronic music festival. I really like the blue and green colors. They didn't use more than 3 colors, which is something I have to keep in mind when I'm designing my flyer. I think the type words work well being angled because centered is too boring. This has visual hierarchy because my eye goes to the word MOVEMENT first and then to the rest of the piece. This piece looks like it has 3 different fonts, which is the limit for designing something like this. I am designing a electronic music festival flyer right now (Kinetik) and it has to be designed with type with little design in the background (like no pictures). On my flyer I have to include the band names, the title, dates, address, and websites. I am inspired by this piece, but I have to add a lot more information on my flyer.  

Zaum & Brown Flyer

This is a flyer designed by Zaum & Brown. This is the business name for the freelance designer Richard Brown. Brown is the main point of contact, but the company is actaully formed over 20 professional freelance creatives around the world. They sell "websites, myspace page, and graphic design solutions to struggling musicians, artists, writers, actors, film makers, and charities from all cultural backgrounds across the world" (from their official website). They are located in Norwich, Norfolk in the UK.    

http://creattica.com/css/zaum-brown/21854

This is their promotional flyer that they designed and it's is sized to fit into a CD jewel case. Most flyers are the size of 8.5 x 11 inches or a little bitter larger. There flyer is already different because of the small size. I like that someone designed a flyer the size of a CD case. The good thing about handing this flyer out is that in can fit in people's pockets and purses. The bad thing about a small sized flyer is that it can get lost more than a regular flyer. 

I like the typography design on this flyer. It makes my eyes move around the page.They put a lot of information on this small space and I think it works well. It definitely has a visual hierarchy. My eyes first look at the words CD, MYSPACE, and DESIGN. Then I see the other information in smaller font.  I like their use of angles. I might use angles in my flyer that I am designing for my typography class. I like that they repeated the white type part and put it in the background as a black glossy font. I like their use of repetition. I need to think about using the same font, but using different variation of the front like they did.    

Typography Headphones

 I really like typography, especially when people create images out of words. I have created people, logos, and other things out of just words and they turned out really good. These headphones are made completely out of words by making the words different sizes, boldness, and shapes. I am in a typography class now and my first project is to design a music festival flyer by only using type. I can have a colored or textured background, but no pictures. I am thinking about creating something like this in my flyer. I have sketched a DJ stand, a soundboard, and music waves all out of type. I'm not sure if I will use them for the flyer, but it gives me some ideas. I know these headphones made out of words is simple and probably easy to create in illustrator, but I really like it. I think creating images (people, objects, animals, logos, etc.) out of words is really creative. People can still tell that this is a image of headphones even though it is made completley out of words. I think this piece flows well. I also like how this piece has visual hierarchy. When I first look at it I noticed that it's headphones, then I noticed that it's made out of words, then I noticed the words 'music', 'sound', and 'band', and then finally I noticed the other words and the cord attached to the headphones. I also like this piece because sometimes simple and clean is better. Not everything has to be complex all the time (which I tend to think the graphic design projects always have to be complex).

Electronic Music Festival Flyer

 This is the 4th Annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival Flyer. It takes place over a course of 2 days and it's in Williamsburg BK. This flyer is related to what I am doing in class because I have to create a music festival flyer out of typography. I can't have any pictures, but I can have some design like a texture background. For the most part, I like this flyer. It is mainly created using type. I like how the designer put the dates and times on the side of the flyer in big bold type. All of the type is nicely aligned together. Between the date and the bands there is an invisible line that creates a box like shape and I  think that works well. I really like the background in this flyer. The background goes from shades and tints of purple to pink and I think it works well. The background also has some texture in it. I might use a background like this for my flyer. Even though the type (of the bands) is close together it is still readable. The type creates movement even though the type is in a straight line. The type creates movement because some of the bands/singers are in bold and big type and the other bands/dj's are in smaller type. I am guessing that the names that are in bold and big type are the headliners or stars of the show and the other ones are not. They put a lot of information on this flyer and I think they designed it well. They put the address/ where it's going to be at towards the bottom underneath the band names. They also have 3 pink lines that separate the information. It's simple, but it works. The designer put the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival's logo at the top right next to the name, which I think works well. I noticed that they also put the logo on the top right side, but they integrated into the background. They also put their sponsors at the very bottom in a line. I think this is a well designed flyer for a electronic music festival.