Íslenzkir Hljóðfæraleikar
Read time:
3-6 min
Client:
Iceland University of the Arts
Industry:
magazine
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Duration:
9 days
This project was a part of a course about content based design. In my case, the subject was a segment in "Jazzblaðið", — an Icelandic jazz magazine that ran from 1948-1953 — called "Íslenzkir Hljóðfæraleikarar", which was about icelandic jazz musicians. My mission was was to republish the segments, so i chose to do so in a magazine.
Cover, illustration, layout, typeface selection and material selection were all subjects that needed to be considered to get the modern, art-deco, cubism and jazzy aesthetic that i was going for.
Cover
For the cover i used the Cudeco font to create an abstract display text of "Íslenzkir Hljóðfræraleikarar".
The imagery was a cubism inspired illustration of a jazzband, which i made because of it's relation to the material.
Made with Illustrator & Indesign
Main Body
I set up a grid for the main body of text and images, and purposfully broke the rules of said grid, which ended up remaining modern and yet improvisational like jazz. The cudeco font was yet again used as a display font for the names of each jazz player. In hindsight i would have liked to put their names in a clearer typeface in the footer.
When pondering over what paper to use, I was thinking either of something glossy like a magazine or something similar to news paper-paper. The store I went to was closed because of an orange coded weather warning so I went to another craft store where I found paper that was kind of a middle ground between the two papers I had thought of. The paper for the cover ended up being a thick craft paper which i liked because of the effect that it's grain had on the ink, but in hindsight would've liked to have used thinner paper for the seethrough aspect of the magazine.
I thought about binding the magazine with twine, but opted for stapling instead
Made with Indesign
