raúl peña_graphic designer:

Design and music

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• Description: This is an exploration of confluence between music and graphic design. These posters are the visual result of a process that balances logic, chance and intuition. Using the text "Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books" by Georges Perec, as well as a short list of books that I’ve read, I devised a system/game that involves: a database, parts of speech, musical notes, colors and shapes. George Perec’s text serves as a database from which words are drawn to create a series of titles. The parts of speech present in the titles of the books I’ve read provide the semantic structure for those new titles. Having assigned a musical note to each letter of the alphabet, the letters present in the new titles provide sequences of notes that constitute the foundations for the music pieces (see links below each image). In turn, each letter is assigned color and shape. This provides a starting point for the visual explorations.