This past semester at Parsons I had an assignment in one of my classes to design a concert poster. Let me walk through the whole process from the brief to the final poster, and explain the steps that I took, and the decisions that I made along the way.
The Brief
The band I was going to be designing a concert poster for was the Bristol England based trip-hop group Portishead. The final poster was to be 18” by 24” and include extensive information about the show’s venue, barbes, in Brooklyn NY. The “client” (actually my professor and the rest of my class in this situation) wanted to explore a couple different concept directions that we could then pair down to a final design that felt the strongest, refine that a bit, and get it ready for print.
With the start of the new year, I thought I might showcase some of the more brilliant work my peers have been doing in the Communication Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design over the past few months. These guys never stop inspiring me, and it’s an honor to be working with them.
Andrew Mahon
Interaction designer Andrew Mahon recently did an algorithmic music visualization for a song by the Apex Twin. He built this with the C++ library Open Frameworks and Open GL, mostly as an exploration in algorithmic animation, but the results are very engaging. This piece is the culmination of a whole series of algorithmic animations that he has been experimenting with, which can all be seen on his Vimeo page. You can also follow Andrew on his Tumblr blog for a constant stream of musings, ideas, and inspiring imagery and videos.
