MUSIC + LYRICS
Using a single song as the creative foundation, designers will explore the basics of design systems, developing a shared visual language across diverse deliverables for a specific live musical event.
artist overview: Vision Video
Vision Video is a goth rock post-punk indie band. Also described as goth-pop. They fuse modern concepts with retro sounds of the late 70 and 80s taking inspiration from early post punk and new wave bands. Their music explores themes of trauma on the human psyche due to Dusty Gannon, lead singer and guitarist, being no stranger to the darker aspects of humanity and death as he served in Afghanistan and is currently a firefighter.
Using social media personas and commonly engaging with fans, their popularity in the goth scene has gotten very big in the couple of years they've been active.
DESIGN APPROACH:
Black and white collage style poster featuring gothic imagery to reference past album covers with the same concepts as well as visualize the songs melancholic mood and subject. Screen printed texture to give a faded ghostly appearance. Font choice would be Lucida Bright due to serif fonts being regarded as sophisticated and serif fonts being featured in past album covers. Band name would be a bolded Source Sans Pro to contrast serif font. Fonts will bleed onto page.
Due to the song being about PTSD, the composition features a head being taken over by a cemetery. Smoke effect animation potential.
This song is one of their more slower tempo pieces as opposed to their more up beat dance floor songs. Somber guitars play through out. It has a very melancholic atmosphere reminiscent of early post punk.
Initial design element visuals that come to mind would be ghastly figures or skulls scattered around a barren wasteland, as well as the inside of someone’s psyche and some symbols for death.
UNWANTED FACES:
SONG
“I have been through some unbelievably intense experiences where I have been face to face with death many times. The sense-memories of sights, sounds and smells come back at the most bizarre times to remind you that those things actually happened and you have to contend with them. It’s not like a movie: there’s no romanticized wistful redemption. The ghosts that come back remain forever without any explanation or catharsis. You become woefully and uncomfortably familiar with them.
This song is for anybody that contends with flashbacks from PTSD. I know your struggle, and I hope you continue to find the strength to persevere.“
- Dusty Gannon
ALBUM
