Josué Pacheco Lentz
![]() In my Graphic Design class we were assigned to make a pictogram music poster. The project is based on Viktor Hertz' music posters. Basically the idea is to make a poster about a musical artist with various pictograms, each of them representing a song. The first thing I did when starting this projects was pick the artist and made a list of their songs that I could make simple pictograms inspired by them. For my poster I picked one my favorite band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Making the song list wasn't very hard for me because they have a big library to chose from. The original list ranged from 25-30 songs. After the list was done, the next thing to do was sketch Ideas for the song pictograms. For sketching ideas I referred back to Viktor Hertz' posters and analyzed how he used symbols to represent the song. This part of the planning took the most time since I had to come up with clever and simple designs for each song. For each song I made 2-4 sketches. When it was time to transfer my work from paper to Illustrator the main resource I used for svgs and basic symbols/pictograms was the Noun Project. The pictograms I got from the noun project were edited and changed to fit the sketch I had for a particular song. I spent a lot of time on each of these pictograms given that this was the focus of the project. The last step to finish up the project was the text and layout. For the text and layout is when I looked back at Viktor Hertz' posters given that the assignment was to recreate his style. I did online research to find the font he used for the text. I ended up finding a very similar font and used that one. The layout and margins were the bulk of this part. After the layout was finished I revised the work and got feedback from my peers and gave the finishing touches before submitting the project. I used Adobe Illustrator CS6 for all the vector work, text and layout of the poster.
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