P2 Final: Charlie Parker

My two experiences of the exhibit and the print piece are meant to be seen in a way which music is seen, poetically not as realistic. Many of the images have different colors than the original black and white or have quotes or phrases that describe his life at the time. The first part of the exhibit shows early life and Kansas City and then through out it walks through his Be Bop phase in New York all the way until his death. At the end it's the total combination of all his experiences influencing his music in a way that is original to him. The no dancing sign is to indicate how Be Bop changed jazz from a dancing music to just sitting and listening music. I chose the words "chromatic" and "addiction" for the outside, because be bop was a huge part of his life and chromatic describes the way this music was unique. I used the word "addiction" to reflect how drugs had a big impact on his life, but even more so he was addicted to creating music. I used the same blue from the Charlie Parker head statue on the outside doors to make the connection that this ties into Charlie Parker without having it say it but still have the orange on the sides to tie the inside and outside together. I also wanted to honor the time, but not make the pieces feel like they came out of the 1930s, so I included old pictures and a typewriter typeface but kept the colors mellow. I would attribute this to calming, which also ties back to the Be Bop as a listening music and not a dancing music.

Pre-Final model

 So here on some rough images and modeling (pre-final) of the exhibit. It may be hard to see all of the images so below are the tabloids I used on the laser printer to mock up this pre-final model.

Type 2: Mar. 3

I developed a booklet that complemented the exhibit, but definitely wasn't the same. It doesn't have the same pictures for the most part but gives a broad overview of what the larger exhibit is all about from his biography.

Type 2. 2.25

So I realized last week that My direction for the exhibit was more realistic and not as poetic as the project called for so I refined some ideas so far and will continue to. I also put the outside in context. I used the same green for the door outside as the green on the Charlie Parker head statue in the square. I also researched into what I my booklet to look like. 

updated floor tile from bird saxophone lockup

And now some booklet inspiration

So the first direction: layering and simple, more image based

second direction: more complicated layering and text heavy

third direction: simplistic and uses hand lettering