conversation
Looking into visual ways of portraying audio brought me to this video for Arctic Monkey’s song ‘Do I wanna know?’ which portrays the story of the video through a distorted sound-wave which soon turns to a visually animated realization of the song, whilst in keeping with the theme of the video.
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
“Plot millions of journal entries from 18th and 19th century ship logs, and you reveal a picture of ocean trade you’ve never seen before.”
Adrian Newell - Scoreline
Peter Crawley - Good Vibrations
‘Good Vibrations’ is just one in a series of pieces by artist Peter Crawley which depict different songs through their sound-waves which have been hand-stitched onto thick card. Each line is representative of 1 minute of audio to leave room for up-to 6 minutes of audio.
good vibrations
K E E P YO U R FACE TO THE AND YOU CAN NEVER SEE THE
This is just a piece of experimental work I did when dabbling in typography and I feel it would be a great way to portray a conversation or message in an attractive way that will engage the audience.
I felt that songs took too long to get to their point and therefore had too much text on the page and would take too long to read. I started to look at iconic movie quotes that are thought provoking and positive and started to build posters around that quote.
Experimenting with quotes and film posters I made in illustrator.
back to the beginning I decided to stick with the idea of portraying information from a journey and thought of the concept of a bus route which you would find at a bus stop. It would be a simplified map, with the location and destination visible along with the stops along the way. The route I will be showing will be my route to university from my house so its relevant to my prior research and also for the convenience of knowing the route in my head already, along with the bus stops.
I like the minimalistic approach that maps use because they do not incorporate pointless information, keeping it straight forward so as to avoid the possibility of confusing the reader. I admire the aesthetic of the map to the left due to the bright colours that really stand out and contrast each other without becoming garish and hard to look at.
I started out by tracing the area from Google Maps to ensure the correct proportions and scale.
I then proceeded to clean up the edges of the road to ensure a pleasing aesthetic. I also altered the colour of the road to grey to be less harsh. I incorporated blue lines to show areas of water and included bus stops along the route.
A location B destination stops TIME
10 minutes distance
1.4 miles
A
this is your journey
B
Final Product Opting for a similar aesthetic to an infographic I have included a Key for the map markings aswell as the length of the journey along with the average time it takes. The green represents the contours generally found on maps but mainly is there to add colour to the image and to contrast the grey to help it become more eye-catching. I feel that it represents a clear message and the information is clearly displayed in a simple manner and that was my goal for this piece. I wanted a way to show what would be a boring conversation, in this case ‘how I travel to university’, and make an appealing visual representation of said information and have found a way to incorporate it into a real world scenario. The way the colours contrast but still compliment each other achieves what I wanted to accomplish with the design. The palette connotes a friendly vibe by keeping it simple with basic primary colours.