Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley is a new group that I'm in love with right now. There music is awesome and different from what I usually listen to. To add to their great music, they have some great artwork to go along with them.



This is the video to their single "Crazy". To be completely honest, this video was what got me interested in them and made me go out and buy their cd. Its different from everything else out there, and the designs are beautiful.

Rock Band Poster

So we we were given the assignment of designing a poster for a rock band name Tiger!Tiger! We don't know much about the band just yet, I have to basically rule out photography in this project considering I probably won't be able to take pictures of the band, unless I come up with another way to use some photos, like tigers, I don't think they can sue me. So taking this into consideration, I looked at a couple of posters that were illustrated.

These are a couple of posters by an artist named NIC COWAN.

On the left one I love the illustration and his color treatment.

On the right one, I like his placement of type.



As far as ideas for Tiger!Tiger!, I still have some research to do. I want something that really represents the band and their content. When I visited their Myspace page, one image really struck me as I wandered around their profile while listening to their music.



Under the "General Info" section and "Sounds Like" subheading, they had this picture. I thought to myself that this picture described them very well, and its really funny! As I continued to browse around, I saw some pics of them and they confirmed the accuracy of this picture. It's kinda like classic 60's meets punk rock, and thats what I think I'll go for.

Design VS Typography

We've all heard "the first rule of typography is legibility", but is it really that important when designing? I guess it really depends on what you're designing for. You can't exactly design a billboard thats gonna be diplayed off the highway, and decide you want to be creative with typography. But, besides that, I think as designers, we should be free to explore and use typography as a design tool and not just for informational purposes.


David Carson is known for his use of type as design. The reason this works is because although the type may not be easily legible, the way its being executed is intriguing and makes you want to be able to read it. So wouldn't that be a successful design? The type is serving two purposes, you are getting the information you were intended to recieve, and its being used as a design.