Monday, January 28, 2013

Degree Project Question


Currently design for old blues music, from Delta Blues to Chicago, is stuck in a stereotypical grainy image of the musician with a side of country twang typography aesthetic. This dated design treatment potentially excludes new generations of listeners from discovering this rich, soulful music form that includes topics ranging from love to the inevitability of death. 

My question is whether or not a new music/lyric centric form of design based on song narratives can be created for this genre through formal and typographic experimentations where direct representation is not always used all the way to complete abstraction of subjects?

EDITED QUESTION NOT TO BE RAMBLING GOBBLEDYGOOK:
How can abstract, formal, and typographic experimentation help make old blues music accessible and attractive to new listeners?


love ya wolf




2 comments:

  1. Hey Jumper friend,

    Your question is incomprehensible. I can't make sense of it. Rewrite before next class please.

    MML

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    1. Hello Marty,

      Sorry about that! Trying to put into words what I'm envisioning is proving to be a difficult task. After rereading the question I feel like I was trying to put too much into a single question and thus complicating it to the point of it becoming unintelligible rambling.

      Jumper

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