A. Leander Bai – The Nights By Avicii
B. Concept and Design
The main inspiration for my project is the rhythm of the music “ The Nights”. The reason why I really like this song is that the melody really helped me every time I was down and because it is a more upbeat style it would uplift me. This music has a lot of rhythms so I wanted to use some straight lines in the project rather than some flowy lines that can not show how energetic the song is. From the intro part to the chorus, the song’s motion gradually becomes more strong, so I wanted to give my project a sense of three-dimensional space. I was trying to use the Gestalt theory of closure and similarity in the project and see how was everything going on. I wanted to make the circle in my project look not that boring, so I used the closure principle on the circle. The “stroke” of the circle (which is part of the font) is discontinuous but it can still make the whole thing look like a circle. As for the One Black Square project I was stuck in the center and I did not explore the space enough but for this project, I decided to go out more and utilize all the space I have and beyond.
C. Process
As I mentioned before, this music has a lot of rhythms. So I used straight lines with the space on the line in the project to represent the rhythm of the music (it is like the clashing on the drums, the consistent brass drum sounds). The sound doesn’t change so a straight line kind of represents its momentum. For the space part, first of all, I put a small circle in the middle and a bigger one on the side. The bigger one covers a little part of the small one so it can make it look like these two shapes are in the position of front and back (foreground and background). The upbeat sounds in the song remind me of the banging motion so I thought this composition of the two circles could represent this motion. Second of all, the right part of the paper is empty, which makes the project looks a little bit boring. So that’s why I chose to put some letters on it in all capital letters. Also, the letters are below the big circle so that the big circle can be on the top of the whole project and be an access point. In the end, I followed suggestions given by my fellow classmate Ken and all my other classmates, I changed the size of the letters to gradually become smaller, so that they can match the space principle I was following. Also, I changed the fonts in my project, but some doesn’t work so I just changed some parts of the fonts in my project.
D. Conclusion
One thing that I want to improve on is that I should try to use more Gestalt theory in my project. I used some aspects but I feel like if I added some more it might make it more interesting. Or maybe spend a little more time testing out more fonts so that I could find one that matches the vibe of the music even more (even though I feel like the fonts I used now works well too).
E. Final Project Photo
