Overview
The song Crosseyed and Painless by Talking Heads is paranoid and frenetic odyssey. I feel like I’m part of a car chase whenever I hear it. With this project, I aimed to create a poster that captured that energy. This design is inspired by brutalism graphic design and relies heavily on typography. This was an exercise in font pairing and I also used this project as an opportunity to become more comfortable making adjustments to the attributes of typography, including kerning and tracking, to enhance the overall mood of the project.
Process
Layout sketches
Alternate digital layout with placeholder boxes
Final black and white layout with images created in InDesign
The stills after being modified in Photoshop to create a grainy photocopier effect
Stock image of a eye (left) and the same image with motion blur and other filters applied in Photoshop to increase the manic energy (right)
Many layers were added to the final design in Photoshop to create the photocopier effect throughout the entire poster
