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I recently discovered Typo Music by Carlos Fernando Agudo when he started to follow me on twitter, I checked out his website and followed him back. When I first saw his site I thought “what great collection of typographic designed album covers”, but I was wrong. I had already checked the website’s about page, but that didn’t help me as it wasn’t in English and I couldn’t easily translate it as it wasn’t real text. I contacted Carlos who owns the site and asked him if he could tell me a little more about his website and designs. It turns out that the typographic designs are his personal design project to interpret songs that he loves. He has then opened up the project to other artists and designers to submit their designs.
Read below what Carlos had to say about his Typo Music website and designs.
“Everything started with an addiction problem … with a song, it was something waaaaay beyond enjoying. I listened this song on my iPod, every day … I’m not kidding, all day long … during three days. In order to “exorcise” this feeling, I tried to put my feelings about the lyrics and the music itself in a design piece. Typography is the visual lenguage that I prefer, where I feel comfortable and let me express an idea more accurate as a designer, so, I used it to create a typographic composition related with this song. The final result is what you can see on the last image, at the bottom of the page (The Metro, Berlin). I uploaded this image to my flickr profile where I received a lot of good comments about the work, and other comments saying: hey, same thing happened to me with “X” song. Then I opened a space where designers can do the same exercise.”
Simple rules:
1. Your favorite song (no restrictions)
2. Use typography as a main element on the layout, also you can use another languages and photography or illustration.
3. Square workspace (600×600 px).
And then MY FAVORITE TYPO’ MUSIC was born. I received almost 130 designs from designers and visual artists from Colombia, Mexico and Argentina. I developed my thesis using this work as a corpus, doing a reflection about the interiorization process of a content (music in this case) in order to produce a consequent design piece.”
“I’m working right now on trying to create a second call to designers and visual artists all over the world to participate and then to publish a book with those works and my reflections about it.”
If you want to submit your work to Typo Music please please visit the website.
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11 Comments
That is an awesome idea. My mind is already churning with ideas. I also really connect to some of the ones you have above. It is neat that you have a lot of the same musical interests as me.
This reminds me of a project we had at university. We were using two briefs; Becks – ‘Inspired by Music’; and ‘The Sound of Graphic Design’. The Becks brief involved us listening to 1 track out of a list of 50 then designing how the song made us feel on a record cover. The second brief we had to think of a style of music and make up our own record album and tracks and design our covers to inspire the music to be played. Both were great fun and I loved the outcomes and idea of both briefs.
Hi Kelly, Thanks for your comment, perhaps you should submit them to the site.
Ithink it’s great idea to make a pictures from your favorite songs! I have a blog too and i promote your post because such a work needs attention.
That art is great. It’s my inspiration for creating typo posters by myself
Well done
Amazing artwork, they are all really nice. Fantastic idea Carlos and a great find Tara. I love the way you always go the extra distance Tara in finding great resources and inspirations for blog posts.
Hi Firebubble,
Thanks I really appreciate that
Tara
Thanks Tara for the post, and thanks everybody for your comments, likes and shares. Maybe in november I’ll be opening a new call for designers and visual artists to participate on the project. Thanks again!!
Hi Carlos
Thanks for letting me show your work and website, I hope the project continues to grow.
Thought you may like to know that Google has a program that easily translates languages.
Hi Suzanne – Thanks but unfortunately I couldn’t use google as the text had been created as an image.