After listening to Admiral Fallows music, listening closely to the lyrics and watching interviews I realised that there songs are all about relationships. The songs, all written by the lead singer are about personal reflection on relationships. I therefore chose to use relationships as my focus for my info-graphic and chose to count how many occurrences there were of the words 'I','You' and 'We' in the lyrics. I chose to count the occurrences in all ten songs on their current album called 'Boots met my face', although after beginning to layout my info-graphic I realised I would have very limited space to display all lyrics from all 10 songs on the album. I therefore chose to represent lyrics from the three songs which I feel best represent the band. I thought this would be best as representing all 10 songs may get boring and tedious.
I chose to use stick men as pictograms for my info-graphic to suggest the relationships I was counting. I decided on the colour white to represent 'I' as it is quite cold and could be used to show loneliness, which is often a feeling linked to context of the word 'I' in most songs. Black for 'you' as it can be seen as negative, such is the nature of the use of 'you' in most songs. Finally I chose to use red for 'we' to show the suggestion of love. The stickemen which have been colour to represent either 'I', 'you' or 'we' all have their arm raised above their heads. This is to suggest the energy of the bands songs, despite their contrasting lyrics. I have used one stick-man to represent each lyric of the each song to give the pictograms a context. Also representing each lyric along with showing the time of each song (shown under the title of each song) give a suggestion as to the style of the song for example, lots of stick-men and a short time would suggest a very lyrical song and few stick-men and a long time would suggest a very instrumental song.
I have kept with Admiral Fallow's current visual style and colour schemes as well as using only two typefaces. The visual style is professional and polished, but still quite playful, as is the bands music. For my info-graphic I have used Bodoni which I have altered to become Admiral Fallow's current logo, by editing out the cross bar of every capital A in 'ADMIRAL FALLOW'. I chose to stay with Bodoni as it is very sleek with pleasing and for lack of a better word 'fun' details such as the leg of the R, the stem of the L and the added detail of the missing crossbars of the A's. The second typeface I have used is a sans serif called Hero, which is similar to one of the typefaces that Admiral Fallow currently use. I felt it too effectively conveys the bands visual style as well as style of music, due to its smooth clean lines and well as elegant curves.
you forgot to change the little men in the legend? all your white, black and red ones are having hands up on the design, but hands down on the legend...
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy your choice of colours, very indie folk. Also the typeface used in this design is appropriate and clear. It's nice to see something that isn't in Helvetica. The layout looks great, clean, simple and clear. I would be interested to know more about the other songs as well, maybe add some to the current 3?
ReplyDeleteI like the look you have began to create. I would say that the blue grey and white go really well together. They make it subtle yet the font colour is distinguishable. I'm not sure about the white orange and black wee men, they stand out alot. would be nice if they were more subtle like the grey ones?? just a thought. Also the keys alignment needs slightly tweeked. However, Overall It is clean and clear and i really like it :)
ReplyDeleteI like the idea behind this poster and the information you are trying to get across.
ReplyDeleteVisually it looks really nice. The colour scheme you have chosen shows you have a good understanding of the bands music and how they project themselves because it reflects the sort of somber, emotional and subtle work they do. I think it might be better if the key didn't have an obvious box around it, I just feel it doesn't work well with the rest of the design as there is no other geometric lines seen. I think the information shown is not much but that inst necessarily a bad thing...To me it just brings down the impact a bit.
The visuals and text work well together as the imagery inst to strong and bold so it doesn't take away the impact of the heading and sub texts. The font used works nicely and is kept clear and simple. It reflects the sophisticated, emotional band well because its quite and elegant and expressive font.
Overall this is a really nice piece. It conveys the bad well and shows you have a good grasp on the voice of the band. I think the visuals and little information take away some impact, but this is not a bold and in your face band so maybe it is suited. I enjoyed it.
In dire need of some comments, so some feedback would be a help. cheers.
ReplyDeleteI really like the overall appearance of your info-graphic. You have used layout successfully to create data which is easy and clear for the reader to understand.
ReplyDeleteYour colour scheme I find is particularly effective as after reading your rationale, I can see the bands reflection and influence on your chosen colours.
Your chosen typeface communicates clearly and is very Admiral Fallow- like.
My only suggestion would be that perhaps you could move the key to the top left or right of the page, to see how this looks. This would allow the reader to see the key first and interpret the data accordingly. (: