DETAILS /
Date Spring 2010
Work Academic
Photography Erin Canoy

OBJECTIVE /
Create an experimental typographic poster that interprets any chosen song. Explore various ways of looking at type through the use of analog methods without the help of photo-editing software.

APPROACH /
For this particular project, I chose Knee Deepen, a song by the group Moloko, wanting to express Roisin Murphy’s eerily haunting voice. The nature of this project drove me to look for a song that was open to interpretation with multiple layers for me to explore. Through the various lines of words and different weights in type, I wanted to express the idea of a person hearing voices in their head as if they were answering back to each other.

The process involved a combination of type and images printed on acetate sheets and swatches of colored cellophane that were projected unto a wall through an old overhead projector. I manually twisted and turned the materials and photographed them in different angles to create unique compositions.