Project 1: Musical Rendering

CD Cover Design:

With this project you are asked to transform sound to a visual form.
Produce 6 CD covers in 3 class period within the given limitations. While doing that you need to question rhythm, spontaneity, fortuity, variation, kinetics.

1. page; only drawings, line, or shapes only. Complete design within the time it takes to listen to the CD.

2. page; found material, line, or geometric shapes and photography only

3. page; album name, title are required information. Typography needed to be considered as a visual element.

4. page; combination of all three pages. Purpose is to consider hierarchy and formal relationships, try new approaches, practice quick decision making....and enjoy different CD cover compositions.The objectives of this assignment are :

.To exercise with lines photography, type and shapes.
.To experiment and create new visual forms, and use them in composition.
.To organize compositions to transform music in to a visual form by using design principles such as rhythm, repetition, unity, contrast, space, and so on.

List of songs

Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box, 4:00, Radiohead, Amnesiac, Alternative & Punk

Flight Of The Bumblebee 1:41, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra, Playtime Music Box, Children’s Music

Cello Suite 2:29, Johann Sebastian Bach, Classical

Hininga 5:23, Mercan Dede, Breath, World Music

La Revancha Del Tango, 5:16, Gotan Project, Acid Jazz
Ali’s Here 3:18 Ali Farka Touré, Niafunke, World



The idea that music is linked to visual art goes back to ancient Greece, when Plato first talked of tone and harmony in relation to art.
Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited with making the world’s first truly abstract paintings, but his artistic ambition went even further. He wanted to evoke sound through sight and create the painterly equivalent of a symphony that would stimulate not just the eyes but the ears as well.

There is still debate whether Kandinsky was himself a natural synaesthete, or merely experimenting with this confusion of senses in combination with the colour theories of Goethe, Schopenhauer and Rudolf Steiner, in order to further his vision for a new abstract art.

The man who heard his paintbox hiss
Ossian Ward
Published: 10 Jun 2006


Given on: Sept. 16, 2010 Thursday
Due to: Sept. 28, 2010, Tuesday 9.40
Format: 40/40cm
Color: No limitations