Silent — SUN.

Music Broadside + Image

The Music Broadside + Image is to develop a meaningful logotype and integrate type + image posters by analyzing and interpreting a music song lyric.

Learn further about print and web typography through a series of research and practice. Create and explore conceptual and visual design in response to principles of visual hierarchy, symbolic representation, typography organization, and aesthetics.

Presenting the final designs by utilizing a Post Modern Grid System, and understanding the combination of Type + Image.

Research of Song

The Song lyrics of Sleepyhead seem to tell a story. The story starts with a sleeping princess who sleeps all day long. One day, a man came to the country and wanted to marry the princess, but the king said no, no one could wake her up.

The man led his army to attack the princess's country, so the King cries and wakes up, and wants her to end this war. The man wants her to wake up and take her away. But still, the princess did not wake up. The end of the story leaves us with two questions.

Did she ever wake again? ...

Will she ever wake again? ...

Let me dissect the story... Why didn't the princess wake up? We all know that we can never wake up one pretending to be asleep..The princess did not want to be a political pawn for her father, to marry a king, or to be a trophy for an admirer. Therefore, she closed herself has been sleeping, in the dark of the castle, even in her most brilliant years of life. So, answer the last question.

Will she wake up? ...

Process of Logotype

The word that I finally selected is "Silent", which I considered as one of the most appropriate adjectives to describe the story of a sleeping princess.

Then, I split up this word into a single letters, which allows me to recombine them together in a meaningful and interesting way.

Here, the separated letter “i” and “n” could compose a word “in”, which relatively represents the man from the story who would like to attack the castle of the sleeping princess.