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variety: the spice of life?

i played with the colors (made the background black, as the great jon serrano suggested) and i am just playing with colors in the title. i also changed the size of the text in the key from 10 pts to 8.5 pts. and changed the thickness and height of the colored lines next to each artist's name.

the first one is a close up of the type and the second one is the whole shibang all in one shot.

Things to work on...

My crit last night...

- Play with colors, the muted color palette is weighing the energy down, maybe try white or black for the background

- Work with the key - lighter weighted typeface, should be long and horizontal

- Color of the title should reflect the colors of the waves

- Everyone seemed to like Modern No. 20 better than Archer, so I will work with that

- Kerning

So I will hopefully have some more progress tomorrow or tonight, depending on how long it takes me to prep for screen printing!

ALSO:

My boss is having a gallery show in Philadelphia next friday (November 7) so you guys should all try to make it down there if you can! He is awesome and so is his work... The information is on the website in the news feed...  http://www.huntergatherer.net

(Sorry, I had to throw that in there...)

I'll get workin' soon enough.

ps

my book for the end of the semester is going to consist of screen shots and collages and zoomies and i bet i will find a way to work a cat into my design

i'am looking forward to it

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And I added some more of they key...

And this is what 

I 

see.... 

when i look

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I tried Modern No. 20 as Gen suggested, but I don't think I like it as much as Archer since the weight is all the same..

i think i resolved the colors?

still need to do all those other things on my list.

advice is appreciated!

chuggin' along

these colors aren't completely final, but they're along the lines of what i'm aiming for. right now i think they're a little punchy.. i want them to be closer to the background color. the dimensions are 8" by 28" but that could change.

HERE'S WHAT I STILL HAVE TO DO..

1| finalize colors and put them in order (possibly switch a few colors around)

2| choose typefaces. in class gen suggested using bodoni or modern no. 20 italic lowercase to achieve a more delicate look. any other suggestions?

3| work out the spacing in the key, right now the stuff i have is kind of thrown together just so i can keep track of stuff.

4| additional text? i was thinking about adding some other text to help with the balance of the page. (right now it is really heavy on the left side) some text i might add...

a| the months i listened to this particular music... ie, september 2007 - september 2008, or maybe showing that in a more interesting way

b| a little something about each of the artists, ie, where they are from or a small paragraph about each artist? i'm not sure yet. i definitely don't want this to look like i needed to fill space so i threw some random information on the page, i want it to be cohesive.

c| something about how i gathered this information (lastfm)



so i could actually really use some feedback right now, especially concerning the additional text. any ideas about what i could add to support the graphic?

thanks a bunch, babies.