Historical Music Poster
Throughout the poster making process I created a few iterations, and found that the lighter colours works better with the song. I was also given the suggestion to change the colours to pinks and blues to create contrast, therefore I tried and made colour variations with two of my original designs using the abstracted shapes from before. At last, I went with the poster where the shapes are overlapping, representing the layering in their voices and that they are a group with three people. I chose these colours as they are not super saturated to create the vintage feeling, but also having the contrast to bring out the lively mood of the song. The rough edges of the shapes matches with the custom lipstick font.
This poster is created for the twenties band—”The Andrew Sisters” with inspiration of the song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. To complete this poster I chose an object that would represent the group and began with exploring the shape and form of it. The object I chose was a classic pink hair curler, the reason behind that was the performer, The Andrew Sisters are a very significant group during the boogie-woogie and swing era, they have big hair and they often dressed in air stewardess uniforms, their signature looks often involved a lot of hairspray and big hair looks. The song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” has a cheerful and happy mood, I think it goes with high contrast and saturated bright colours. Their entire look was lively and bold. I took the hair curler and tired photographing it to capture the bold colour and the unique textures on it, then took it even further by redrawing it digitally and also with other materials. The colour of the curler is in bright pink and the texture of it represents the texture of the song as they sang in layers as a trio group. I landed on the idea of abstract forms, with a textured outline to represent the texture on the rollers. To symbolize the trio, I used three abstract shapes and the colours of blue and pink, which reminded me of them after listening to their songs.
I personally liked the abstract forms of the curlers the best and that is what I chose to work with. To further explore the song and the artist, I chose to use lipstick to create the title, as I think that lipstick is a bold yet girly item that is also very iconic to The Andrew Sisters, it would give the name a feminine touch, and also gives the words more character and texture. To create contrast, the information listed uses a lighter colour and more structured typeface.
