ChipArt
Designs for an exhibition on Chiptune and its visual culture.
Designs for an exhibition on Chiptune and its visual culture.
Chiptune is a way of creating music by using old computers and games consoles limited technology to explore sound. It can be used to create music in any genre. Despite its limitations it has continued to grow in popularity since it's birth in the 1980's. Now there is an established culture, with a crossover between art and music.
The design uses deconstructed bitmap typography, glitched art I've created for the project by altering jpeg images, and processed music (by using a spectogram to turn music into images). This results in each poster literally containing the music and art of the exhibition, with each one individually based on art, music or video. The booklet will be sold at the event and uses the glitched art and spectogram images to help explain the history of Chiptune.
The whole design can be traced back to the pixel: square grids, square images and square format.
(This project is not for profit. Some of the images used are unlicensed from the web. All glitched imagery was created for the project.)
