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Clever Pictogram Music Posters

paul0v2 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:28:34 +0000

Designed by Viktor Hertz, a freelance designer and photographer from Sweden. These pictogram music poster are very clever and well done, each poster representing a song that I'm sure you will familiarize with. Check them out and let us know which one is your favorite.

For more from Viktor visit behance.net/viktorhertz

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Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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UI Design: Carl Cox Mixer

PauloGabriel — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:26:12 +0000

Following my newly found love for UI design, I kept looking for some cool designs to share with you guys and happily I've found a super nice music app.

The app is the Carl Cox Mixer, featuring and beautiful DJ mixing setup. This one was designed by the talented Jonas Eriksson, the same guy behind the Drum Machine, featured here before. Hopefully Jonas will keep delivering beautiful apps like these in the future. To see more screenshots of it, you may visit the app page. I hope you enjoy this!! Cheers. ;)

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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Illustrated by Music

paul0v2 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:45:21 +0000

I made an amazing selection of album cover from upcoming bands that you provably don't know about. The artwork that comes with this unknown music is just amazing, this scene gives chance to many artists and designers to create outstanding work and here are a few for you to check out.

To find out more about each piece, just click on it and to view more band artworks visit bandjob.com

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Music Genres Poster Series

paul0v2 — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:39:58 +0000

A poster series curated by Edit where a bunch of different designers were asked to represent a musical genre using one shape and one type. The result is awesome, every poster has a unique style and represents its music genres very well.

Nitzan – Edit — Acid House

Sane & Able — Classical

Toko — Detroit Techno

Studio Makgill — Disco

This Studio — Electro

Manual Creative — Folk

Trevor Jackson — Industrial

Baster — Metal

Duane King — New–Wave

Collective Approach — Polka

Mark Boyce — Soul

Hey Studio — Twist

Leterme Dowling — Urban

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The Style of Music

paul0v2 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:50:09 +0000

Ensemble The Style of Music is an awesome project created by Moxy Creative House. They had the brilliant idea to recreate the clothe that famous artist use to wear and make each piece into a nice poster. Check it out!

To view all and buy posters visit moxycreative.com/ensemble

Which one is your Favorite?

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Abduzeedo 2010 Greatest Hits

marcos333 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:49:50 +0000

2010 is near ending, but the Abduzeedo Team wants to share our favorites hits from 2010, because we think that music is another great place to get inspired. So everybody from the blog made a short Top 10 hits and we want you to share your list too, hope you enjoy our selection.

Fábio

2010 Favorite Artist: Bon Iver and The National

Fabiano

2010 Favorite Artist: Beastie Boys and Daft Punk

Gisele

2010 Favorite Artist: OneRepublic

Aloa

2010 Favorite Artist: Ratatat

Paulo Canabarro

2010 Favorite Artist: The Constellations

Amanda

2010 Favorite Artist: Passion Pit

Nathan

2010 Favorite Artist: The Black Keys

Below I've included my most listened to playlist of 2010, but it just as easily could have been the entire Brothers album by The Black Keys.

Marcos

2010 Favorite Artist: Toro Y Moi

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My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Music-Concert Photography

PauloGabriel — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:00:19 +0000

We've received a nice suggestion for a post. Markus Myhre wanted us to come up with a good rock-band photography post, but I thought that labeling it rock would narrow the possibilities, so I called it music-concert photography.

Markus wanted to see revolutionary photography, such as the iconic pictures we've shown here in the past, but to call something revolutionary is kinda difficult for me. I've looked for some recent pictures of well-known bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis and Foo Fighters and found some great pictures that could be called iconic in some level. I want to know what you guys think about the modern concept of music-concert photography, and what pictures you've seen lately that fit that profile. Also, do you like these? I sure do! Tell us. Again, you should really visit each photographer's page for more of these great pictures... they'll appreciate it. I hope you enjoy my selection. Cheers! ;)

Dena Flows

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Jimmy Alter

Kasabian

James Wood

Kasabian

Bianca Barrett

Kasabian

Bao Nguyen

Muse

Kyle Dean Reinford

Foo Fighters

Scott Simock

Weezer

Mark Austin

Oasis

Matt Ellis

The Strokes

crazybobbles

a Muse concert

Sam Ke

Oasis

Dena Flows

Red Hot Chili Peppers

letitia & steve

The Killers

Juan Perez-Fajardo

Green Day

Martin Worster

The Cure

James Arnold

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Great Band Illustrations

PauloGabriel — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:04:52 +0000

I find really nice when bands get illustrated. I remember the music video of "Love Rollercoaster" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers... it was a fun video. But also, there's a more serious, less cartoonish approach.

Tamas Gaspar has done some great illustrations for the band Rackajam. These are probably the members of the band, and I can imagine how thrilled they were when they first put their eyes on these. Awesome style! Well, for more of Gaspar's works you may visit his portfolio at DeviantART. I hope you enjoy these. Cheers! ;)

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Musically Inspired Album Covers

paul0v2 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:51:57 +0000

Simon Page is a self-taught designer from the UK. This month he started a project called Musically Inspired Album Covers in which he created an amazing series of cd covers inspired by the the music itself. Here you take a look at each cover and find out what music inspired the creation.

Besides these awesome covers, Simon has a very extended and creative portfolio that you should definitely check it out.

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Inspired by Mike Oldfield album Platinum

Inspired by BT's album These Hopeful Machines

Inspired by Röyksopp’s album Melody A.M.

Inspired by Röyksopp’s album Junior

Inspired by The Avalanches album Since I Left You

Inspired by Jean Michel Jarre's album Equinoxe

Inspired by Gareth Emery's track Metropolis

Inspired by Crystal Method's album Divided by the Night

Inspired by Röyksopp’s album Junior

Inspired by Gareth Emery's track Metropolis

Inspired by Solar Fields album for Mirror's Edge Soundtrack (and in particular the Introduction track)

Inspired by Jean Michel Jarre's album Zoolook

Inspired by BT's track the Light in Things

Inspired by Jean Michel Jarre's album Zoolook

Inspired by Deadmau5 album Lack of a Better Name

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Metal Makes Everything Better

PauloGabriel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:15:03 +0000

We don't do this often, but musical posts are so needed from time to time. For me, music is an essential part of designing, since I just can't work without listening to something. And if you are into metal, it makes your workflow much more badass.

Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a link to a metal cover of a Lady Gaga song, and it was pretty cool. The guy who did it goes by the alias "bliix" and he has done some unbelievable metal covers from songs that one wouldn't like at all (like some from Justin Timberlake) and he's done others from true classic ones, such as the listed below, and are totally worth checking. Of course, I've saved my favorite of his covers for last. I bet you metalheads will dig it. For more of bliix's covers, go to his channel at YouTube, and you'll find some precious pieces of sweet metal art. Cheers! ;)

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Rick James - Super Freak

Eiffel 65 - Blue

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

And last, but not least... my favorite one.

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The Music Series

paul0v2 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:33 +0000

The Music Series is a collection of posters done by the Argentinian graphic design studio called Minga. The series features ten posters that each represent a style of music, check out the posters and see what style fits you best.

For more from studio Minga visit http://www.estudiominga.com or behance.net/minga

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be—Abraham Maslow

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How Designers Get Influenced by Music Part 2

aloa — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:56:19 +0000

Last week I published the first part and we got some really nice comments from designers all over the world. Most of them need music to finish a piece or get inspired & motivated in use of color and shapes. There were some more artists who want to spread their words.

How designers get influenced part 1 was very successfull and informative article about the combination of music and design. We had eleven designers talking about their experiences and views on music among them like Alex Beltechi, Pete Harrison and Rik Ooestenbroek. It is totally worth to check out.

This time we also have some different views on the same topic. We'd love to discuss everything with you guys more, so just leave a comment. My question is:

"How does music inspire you and what music do you listen to, while designing?"

Shadow Chen

website http://www.saltyshadow.com/

I love music second to I love art, sometimes even more, in my opinion music is the most amazing thing people can give to this world, it's magical, inspirational, sentimental, healing...it's everything.I always dreamed of being a musician, or a singer performing on the stage, I think it's the most precious and desirable gift people can have, since I'm not good enough to do that, I transform my feelings while hearing the music to my artworks, hence it become a very special and inspiring process for me.Music can be art , and art can be music.

My favorite genre is rock, new wave, post punk, shoegaze, dreampop, downtempo...there are too many, my top musicians are The Cure ,The Flaming lips, Robin Guthrie...I'm also a chill-out radio fan, love listening to belowzero and anji bee's chillcast.

Justin Maller

website http://justinmaller.com/

"Music is an integral, interwoven, intangible yet indispensable part of my creative process. I tend to save listening to my favourite albums for times where I need to produce my best creative work - I will often watch movies when drumming out less inspired work, but find that my imagination really fires up when the tunes kick in. I have no set genre or band that I listen to when I create - I just listen to whatever album it is that I have on rotation and see where it takes me. Lately I've been listening to The XX, Led Zeppelin and Bloc Party - it's made for some really wonderful creative sessions."

Erik Johansson

website http://www.alltelleringet.com/

Music is an important part of my inspiration, but I think that it's very individual which kind of music that is inspiring for different people. Before I begun doing photo and retouch I painted with water color, the ideas were similar but the technique different. I discovered that the kind of music I listened to while painting affected the look of the painting a lot. Now as I work in a different way which requires a lot more time I often use the music to come up with ideas. When I then work with the photos in the computer the idea doesn't really change since I have a quite clear idea about what I want it to look like. At the moment inspirational music is: French electro (ed banger) and "bob hund" to mention a Swedish band which is reflected in my photos.

Stefan Buchner

website http://www.dailymonster.com/

Music keeps me happy, and I work better when I’m happy. It’s that simple. There’s no direct correlation between the music I listen to and the work I do. My typography and illustration look the same with AC/DC as it does with Sibelius (the Finnish Angus Young.) What does inspire me is hearing about the making of my favorite music--- producers and artists breaking things down track by track, explaining effects, and their artistic decisions, comparing demos to the finished piece. That immediately makes me think how I can apply their sonic ideas to paper.

Elena Savitskaya

website http://elenasavitskaya.com/
blog http://designwithathought.com/

I generally listen to old jazz and soul, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Nat Cole King etc... Some Gotan Project does it sometimes as well. Basically, anything that put's my mind in the right place. I don't enjoy overpowering music as it's more distracting, than enjoyable. Music gives me that little extra kick on the back side that you sometimes need to create something that you're proud of. I think "New York, New York" is one of the best songs for self motivation for any age and taste.

Chuck Anderson

website http://www.nopattern.com/
blog http://www.thebrilliance.com/

Music inspires me as I work in countless ways. I tend to listen to a lot of loud hardcore and metal when I work as its the kind of music I enjoy the most, bands like Botch, Isis, Enslaved, The Austerity Program, etc. However, you can't just listen to stuff like that nonstop all day, so sometimes if I need to sit down and focus for a long time, especially at night, I'll put on more chill stuff like David Bazan, Bon Iver, or Beach House. Really depends on my mood, but regardless, music is that thing that keeps your mind well-oiled while you focus and create. I like to keep it consistent and listen to full albums most of the time, but sometimes I'll throw it on shuffle just for fun and end up with Sufjan Stevens, Pig Destroyer, Jay-Z, and Fugazi in the same mix, which seems a little odd and kind of hilarious, but it keeps it interesting. Music has everything and nothing to do with my work - on one hand it is ever-present as I work, on the other hand, what I have on at the moment doesn't always directly influence what I'm creating, just keeps my mind sharp and occupied.

Wojciech Pijecki aka Zero Bound

website http://www.behance.net/zerobound

There are plenty of music generes that I listen to, while designing. It's a pretty much wide variety, starting from Pop to Nu-metal. Mostly, if the design is a quite fast treatment like some simple layout etc. then I don't pay much of attention for music, I just work like a machine and the radio is somekind of background.

But in the other cases, when I work on something big, an illustration with its own mood, music is a great helper. It influences your work dynamics, especially good rock bits. They not only can give you a great inspiration but also strength to work.

Lately I'm working on a project connected with nature, and this just enforces to listen to something calming. For this particular example I'm listen to instrumental rock band which is called Mogwai. All the piano parts and smooth clean guitars sound, put my mind inside my project. Like I'm totally connected. So if I match the right song with project theme, then the work just flows. And it's important to work at night, to get into this.

Alex Cornell

website http://www.alexcornell.com/
blog http://blog.iso50.com/author/alex/

As I musician, I take the music I listen to while designing very seriously. Every time I sit down I have to think for a while about what kind of music needs to accompany the workflow. If it's early in the design process, I need something really calm and driving -- nothing too prominent that might interrupt conceptual thinking. Usually electronica works best at this stage. When things get closer to the end, and the concept is locked in, I like to BLAST either crazy techno or really heavy rock. The funny thing is, when I'm not designing, I listen to a completely different type of music.

Nikolay, from Nu Fabric

website http://nufabric.org/

We live in a digital world. We're surrounded by a lot of sounds and visual objects nearly every second in our daily life. We walk in a busy street, instead of looking and seeing people and communicate with them using our bodies, we see ads and billboards, we hear the sound of the city, neither beautiful or disturbing it is.
Music gives us a pleasant escape from all the surroundings that disturbs our harmony or chaos. When in need of a silence and calmness, we won't put ear plugs, but the earphones. Lyrically, we associate the things we hear with a feeling we have felt or we would love to feel.
That's the absurd of the nowadays — When in need of a silence, it's the music that gives you that silence.

Speaking of the music itself, I'm currently obsessed with the Vampire Weekend's Contra and a lot of Madlib stuff recently.

Eduardo Recife

website http://www.eduardorecife.com/
website http://www.misprintedtype.com/v4/

Music is my fuel during most of the day. It inspires me in ways that I cannot describe. Even though I work with graphics I always said that nothing compares the power of music to reach a soul. I listen to all sorts of music and today I listen to some music that I thought I would never surrender to... But I also listen to a lot of indie rock, folk, bands. Some of the bands that are on my playlist lately are: Blind Pilot, The Go Find, Metronomy, Fleet Foxes, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Convenience, and a whole bunch of Sweden bands....

Joan Charmant

http://www.joancharmant.com/

I'm not using music as an inspiration. Music brings me back to the real world.
I find that many areas needs a lot of concentration like browsing for the right source, assessing if I'm on the right track, taking a step back to look at the image in a new light, etc. If I listen to music during these steps, my mind gets carried away and I make wrong decisions. I currently use music only to cover the annoying sound of my PC ventilator and surroundings. Even then, distinctive lyrics are a no-no, and I go for electro-jazz instrumentals. I'm considering buying noise-cancelling headphones to get perfect silence and immerse completely in the world where the image I'm designing is coming from. Still, one thing I would like to try in the future is to get some tracks of natural sounds, like birds or whales, and use them lightly during the purely artistic steps.

Nik Ainley

website http://www.shinybinary.com/

I don't know why it is but I generally find music can only keep my occupied for a short time, and usually I'll be working for long periods without a break. Partly it's getting over interested and fiddling with the playlists and being reminded of other songs I want to hear. I think it's also down to not having enough music I want to listen to at any one point to match the hours I work. I'll just end up listening to the same stuff over and over again which will annoy me and consequently distract me. I could listen to the radio or some online equivalent, but again it's only a matter of time before I get songs I don't want and am back to playlist fiddling.

I think music is almost too much stimulation for me while working. It's almost too important. If it's good, I get in to it too much and forget about work. If it's bad I really notice it and have to change it. I need something that can fit into the background and I find that hard with music.

Designers Music com

Design & music go hand in hand. Great design needs great music, and DesignersMusic is all about helping you find new inspration. Find out what other designers are listening to, sort music by job types and share that awesome band no one else has heard of. Stop reading and get started!

We'd love to discuss everything with you guys more, so just leave a comment - Aloa

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Aloa is the moniker of the german/greek graphic designer/filmmaker & musician Alexis Papageorgiou. Im glad to share great artistic work with the readers on Abduzeedo. Contact me on aloa@abduzeedo.com or follow my Twitter and Facebook page

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Retro Music Posters by Paul Gardner

paul0v2 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:21:06 +0000

Paul Gardner is the guy behind Florafauna, a design studio based in Minneapolis tat is half design and half screen printing operation. His work varies from different types and applications but always with a very original "silk screened" style.

To check out more work and to buy posters visit http://www.florafaunaworld.com

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How Designers Get Influenced by Music

aloa — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:31:54 +0000

Music is a very important aspect in design. It can influence your thoughts, ideas, movements & so much more. I had a talk with 10+ awesome designer & Illustrator like Pete Harrison and discussed this topic. Plus you will get some tips about how to use music.

For me music is very close together with design. Most of my design ideas come while listening to music. Beats and melody set the mood of my images and lyrics and speed influence my movements when designing. There is no way I can design wihtout music. It also motivates me and entertains when the im bored painting.

I decided to gather some opinions and ask several top designer how they got influenced and touched by music. Im happy that I got some really good artists who have been working in the design scene for a couple of time and really know what they are talking about. I asked every one the same question.

"How does music inspire you and what music do you listen to, while designing?"

Falsify

website http://www.sa3s.com

To me music is the single biggest inspiration for my art. Whilst designing I listen to things like Commix, Massive Attack and other electronical music. I like digital soundscapes with dark rolling b-lines that build crazy worlds in my head layer by layer. A few months ago whilst listening to Leftfield I had a surge of ideas for a short illustrated story that I am currently working on, these moments are pure gold dust. The hardest part is trying to recreate these feelings and visuals as I see them with my minds eye. This is the running battle...'

Magomed Dovjenko

website http://iammago.com/

Music inspires me in any aspect - it sets the mood of my work when working while listening to music, it's inspiring the colors and the overall look of my work. Most of the time I listen to Rap/Hip-hop - like Jay-Z, Kanye West, Cassidy, Young Jeezy ,Lil Wayne and so on.I can't work without listening to music - it's just much more fun when you hear those beats banging while you're creating.

Anton Shineft

website http://clor.net

It seems to me, that music and visual art are inseparable parts. As soon as something new and interesting appears in music, styles, directions - the great number of works of modern artists, representing these changes appears. Music is the best help for imagination. I am very inspired by the spirit of such projects as Flying lotus, Fever ray, AFTA 1, Toro Y moi, Lone. In my opinion, that’s a one of the icons of todays zeitgeist. It all reminds me of the presentation of modern people focused on the interaction with the spiritual world. You can clearly see rhythm and direction. It helps me understand some streams.

Rik Ooestenbrooek

website http://nkeo.deviantart.com/

I cant design without music, music gives me the rest I need while working on a piece. The Type of music depends on the mood I'm in. Back in the days while I made lots of colourfull photomanip's mixed with abstract I used to listen to Vocal trance. The colours I use are basicly based on the type of music I listen. Less colour means more emotive beats, more colour means happy songs"

Robert Shields

website http://www.robshields.net/

Personally I am obsessed with finding and buying new music every week but I often design in silence. The inspiration I get from music often has more to do with the emotional content or a message that I remember. There is also a coolness factor that comes from music which helps me gauge whether or not an idea I have is over played. Otherwise I don't really feel that the territories exactly overlap. It'd be like saying I have to look at a beautiful picture every time I try to write a song. To me that's really not what its about.

ABOVE

website: http://goabove.com

"Music is an extremely crucial aspect of my day to day life. Not only when I am creating artworks but when I am grocery shopping, digging ditches, or skydiving, music always helps. When I create artworks I aim to have the music X3 times as loud as the high powered electrical tool I use. Table saws can be loud but my James Brown Funk, or Acid Trance House music always sing louder. Sometimes I get carried away and start dancing while I'm painting which can make for some interesting artworks to say the least. I'd rather be deaf than blind, but not being able to hear while looking at live music would be suicidal. I am greatful I still have my 5-senses."

Keith Garrison

website http://www.behance.net/NoirMaybe

Just like most other things in my workspace, I consider music a "tool" of sorts. A lot of times I find it to distracting and can't start or work on a project with it. Other times I need it to give me that boost of energy or keep me from being distracted by my environment. Most of the time I just need it to get in that sort of "Trance" where I barely notice the world around me and soon forget the music is even there.

From Ryan Clark, Invisible Creature

website http://www.invisiblecreature.com

Music is inspiring to me in many ways. It's inspiring to hear people create new and interesting things, and that stimulates my desire to create things of my own, be it something visual or something musical. Music can inspire me subconsciously, playing in the background while I work, and it can also influence me in very specific ways, if I listen intentionally. Sometimes I'll listen to music that may directly correlate to something I'm designing, but ordinarily I just listen to something based on my current mood. Brit pop/rock (ie: Elbow, Doves, The National, White Lies, Editors) is usually the first thing I go to.

Pete Harrison

website: http://www.aeiko.net/

I listen to a variety of music..and music is always on when im designing. Usually its something fast like drum and bass..something to keep me ticking, recently a lot of hospital stuff - London Elek, High contrast, Mistabishi, Logi, Danny byrd etc...but I also love faster stuff such as Spor, Sigma, Fresh, Sub Focus..its background music but keeps me working, especially in the early hours. I also love chillout and ambient sounds, for example the Desktopography albums, Tycho, Enya, BOC, Nuuro and Freshcut. Sometimes the piece that im working on can influence the taste in music, and I will try and get into the mood of what im designing at the time and just roll from there, feeling the flow.

Alex Beltechi

http://www.behance.net/alexbeltechi

Music and Design are two faces of the same coin for me. An image is something you see, and music is something you hear, though I use both to communicate a message. Just as I appreciate and create images, I listen to and compose music. Nevertheless, I see design as my career and music as my passion. The tablet is my job and the piano key is my hobby, though I do enjoy both very much. I also tend to be critical on both. When I see a poster, I sort of critique it in my head. The same applies for music, and you'd be surprised to see that design principles apply to music as well. They really are one and the same thing, so it's no surprise that so many designers get involved in music, or at least feel a special connection to it.

I usually listen to music when I design, because it drives and inspires me. My music choice is usually a range of classical, neoclassical, movie soundtracks or solo piano music.

Perttu Murto

website http://www.perttumurto.com/

I usually listen music always when I work. It's kind a part of the design project in my opinion! It is a great way to close "the other world" on my mind while I work and helps me concentrate 110% on the artwork itself. I kind a like all kind of music (except R'n'B!) so it's up to my own mood what I am listening while working. It could be really hard rock or some chill out electro stuff. It doesn't really effect to the out come, it just have to be good music! Good music is always inspiring!"

Where to listen to music

It sometimes appears that everything in your music library you heared thousands of times and you need fresh new stuff or it appears that you dont even have a music library. Well, thanks to the internet there are several ways to get some audible inspiration. There are online music services such as Deezer or Lala, which are really good. My favourite is Grooveshark where you add the song you'd like to listen to, to a current playlist and it's really fast.

And now it is your part to tell us what music do you listen to? And how does the music inspire you? Place a comment and I am happy.

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Iconic Music Photography

PauloGabriel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:09:28 +0000

I guess one of the greatest dreams of any band is to have an iconic picture someday. A picture taken at the right moment, at that one visceral point in a band's existence, might be the one that immortalizes it. Through out music history, we've seen some great examples of iconic pictures, like the ones here.

And I really wonder which are the pictures these days that one day might become iconic. I just think that we haven't seen new iconic pictures for a long time now, and probably won't see any... unless these emo kids pull off some great plan, but I think they don't have what it takes. So, what do you think will be the iconic music photography of tomorrow? Any thoughts? Tell us! Cheers. ;)

Jimi Hendrix

Hendrix was immortalized after burning and smashing of his guitar at the finale of his performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967.

Sid Vicious and Nancy

In November 1977, Sid met American groupie Nancy Spungen, and they immediately began a relationship. She was a heroin addict, and Sid, who already believed in his own "live fast, die young" image, soon shared the dependence. Although they were deeply in love, their often violent and rocky relationship had a disastrous effect on the Sex Pistols.

Bob Dylan

Picture taken by Daniel Kramer

Bob Dylan has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'," became anthems for both the civil rights and the anti-war movements.

Michael Jackson

Thriller Cover

In 1982 Jackson issued his second Epic album, Thriller. The album remained in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for 80 consecutive weeks and 37 of those weeks at the peak position. It was the first album to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, including "Billie Jean", "Beat It," and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. Thriller was certified for 28 million shipments by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond status in the United States. It was, and currently remains, the best-selling album of all time, with 110 million copies worldwide.

Bob Marley and the Wailers

The Wailers' first album, Catch a Fire, was released worldwide in 1973, and sold well. It was followed a year later by Burnin', which included the songs "Get Up, Stand Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff". Eric Clapton made a hit cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1974, raising Marley's international profile. The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members going on to pursue solo careers. The reason for the breakup is shrouded in conjecture; some believe that there were disagreements amongst Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, and Bob concerning performances, while others claim that Bunny and Peter simply preferred solo work.

Elvis Presley

The iconic cover of Elvis Presley's debut RCA Victor album. Photo taken on January 31, 1955

On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville, Tennessee. RCA enlisted the talents of already established stars Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins also to "...fatten the sound." The session produced "Heartbreak Hotel/I Was The One" which was released on January 27. The public reaction to "Heartbreak Hotel" prompted RCA to release it as a single in its own right. By April it had hit number one in the U.S. charts, selling in excess of one million copies.

David Bowie

Alladin Sane Cover

Aladdin Sane is an album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973. The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album Bowie wrote and released as a bona fide pop star. The name of the album is a pun on "A Lad Insane". An early variation was "Love Aladdin Vein", which Bowie dropped partly because of its drug connotations.

The Beatles

Abbey Road Cover

The Abbey Road cover photograph was taken by Iain Macmillan. Macmillan was given only ten minutes around 11:30 that morning to take the photo on a zebra crossing on Abbey Road. That cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and most imitated album covers in recording history. McCartney is bare-footed and out of step with the other three. The photograph also played a prominent part in the "Paul is dead" urban legend in late 1969. The man standing on the pavement in the background is Paul Cole, an American tourist unaware he had been photographed until he saw the album cover months later.

Ramones

The cover of their original album, Ramones.

The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, all of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname 'Ramone', though none of them were actually related. They performed 2263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell show and disbanded.

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. Although Morrison was known for his baritone vocals, many fans, scholars and journalists alike have referenced his theatrical stage persona, self-destructive lifestyle and his work as a poet. He was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".

The Clash

London Calling Cover

The London Calling cover features a photograph of Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass against the stage at The Palladium in New York City on 21 September 1979 during the "Clash Take the Fifth" US tour. Pennie Smith, who photographed the band for the album, originally did not want the photograph to be used. She thought that it was too out of focus, but Strummer and graphic designer Ray Lowry thought it would make a good album cover. In 2002, Smith's photograph was named the best rock and roll photograph of all time by Q magazine, commenting that "it captures the ultimate rock'n'roll moment - total loss of control". The cover artwork was designed by Lowry and was a homage to the design of Elvis Presley's debut album. The cover was named the ninth best album cover of all time by Q magazine in 2001.