NIK NIXIES
Symphonic metal band
PROJECT:
BAND IDENTITY / album Cover
TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC:
YOUNG ADULT, AGE 24+
Objectives:
Ariel's Rebellious Phase
: From masculine Metal
to A feminine Flare
The challenge was to create a band identity using an existing photograph. And incorporated that same photo into a new original album cover. The photo chosen for this challenge depicts a more traditional band of metalheads. The twist was to create an identity and album design that still held the wild unhinged spirit of metal for an all female band.
Original Image
FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE PHOTO IS THAT THE PARTICIPANTS ARE LISTENING TO or in A METAL BAND. THE PERSON IN THE BACKGROUND IS HEADBANGING THEIR LONG HAIR and WEARING A T-SHIRT design WITH a BLACKLETTER typeface. THE person IN THE FOREGROUND HAS A DEFIANT EXPRESSION HOLDING UP DEVIL HORNS.
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / Original image: _Headbanging _First impression METAL BAND! _Devil Horns _Blackletter font / Inspiration: _Dramatic hair flip like a certain “Little Mermaid”
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / left Text: _original 60’s/70’s [metal bands] _anthem-like _keyboard to create orchestra _classically trained vocalist / Band Persona: _Adella _Lana _Calypso_Pearl
Band Name
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / left Text: _ 2 bands already use this name [Nixies] _maybe? Weeping _Bridal Veil? _EH?...NAH _The Devil / Right text: _Why Nixies? Favorite childhood movie for all band members was “The Little Mermaid” & how they became friends
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / Version 1: _Negative space heart _ serif [shape] : fish/mermaid tail/water/waves / Version 2: _looks like a single person + band “singer”/ NIK -> Feels more ambiguous, non-human, otherworldly, not a singular person / Version 3: _ pirates? / Version 4: _ script: personal/organic form _texture _stabbing the heart _icon? _scales
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / left Text: _play on words, to nick: a small notch, groove or chip/a small cut or wound
*Annotations: [ Top : Down/ Left : Right / zig-zag ] / left Text: _ Nixie folklore_ “Little Mermaid” parody / ep album cover: _majestic water spray _ band members collages on top -> deception, mask of beauty, BUT dark underneath _bright violet ep [album] , Evil/ toxic/ unnatural
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