Seeing Sounds Exhibition - December 11th, 2022 - Wolfsonian Museum.
What does a song look like? Graphic design students at Florida International University sought to answer this very question, creating vibrant posters that give visual expression to classics of Cuban music. The exhibition that inspired it all: Turn the Beat Around by curator Frank Luca, a Wolfsonian new show illustrating how musicians from Cuba and the U.S. created musical fusions that continue to resound today.
What does a song look like? Graphic design students at Florida International University sought to answer this very question, creating vibrant posters that give visual expression to classics of Cuban music. The exhibition that inspired it all: Turn the Beat Around by curator Frank Luca, a Wolfsonian new show illustrating how musicians from Cuba and the U.S. created musical fusions that continue to resound today.
Clarissa Villanueva “Conga” 18 x 24
Katherine Morales "Drum Colors" 18 x 24
Leo Milot "Motion Mambo Music” 18 x 24
Kenny Nguyen 'Incessant Blue" 18 x 24
Cristina Osceola, “Tang Eyes”, 2022, 18” x 24”
Alexandra Berlin, “Mambo Bits,” 2022, 18” x 24”
Troi Jackson “Synesthesia” 2022, 18”x24”
Alexandra Berlin, “Untitled,” 2022, 18” x 24”
Anthony Lynde "Power of Rhythm" 18 x 24
Rocio Rodriguez "Bam Ha Music" 18' x 24'
Melanie Jo, “Sunset Mambo,“ 2022, 18 x 24”
Ariel Saavedra "Mambo Listening" 18 x 24
Inspired by the RUMBA “dance the rumba” by George Raft & Margo, 1935
and Estela and Rene's dance a rumba (Another Thin Man, 1939)
and Estela and Rene's dance a rumba (Another Thin Man, 1939)
Monica Espinoza, "Rumba Within 2," 2022 18" x 24"
Samantha Romero 'Let's Move," 2022 18"x24"
Silvia Lopez "Gesticulation," 2022, 18" x 24"
Reana Teer "The Last Rumba," 2022, 18"x24"
Gabriela Rodriguez "Ripples of Rumba," 2022, 18”x24”
Maria Perez "Bloom," 2022, 18" x 24"
Natalia Wellman, “Night Sway,” 2022, 18” x 24”
Cristina Anson "The Rumba Around" 18 x 24
Wendy Montenegro "PUENTE (bridge)," 2022, 18"x24"
Laura Suarez "Tremendo sabor" 2022 18"x24"
Sofia Soriano de Figueiredo "Sequence" 18" x 24"
Luis Reyes "Color Waves" 18" x 24"
Amanda Perea, “Explosion of Sound,”2022, 18” x 24”
Emily Lantigua, "Improvisación" 2022, 18" x 24"
Assignment Brief: Seeing Sound Poster GRA4818
Design a ‘seeing sound poster' using printed images and shapes, pieces of magazines, type, drawings, sentences, and typography. Listen, select, observe, reflect, and reconstruct images into this poster, exploring the possibilities of interdisciplinary design, figure-ground, hierarchy, overlap, color, diagonal activation, and layout to create impactful imagery. How does a song look like? Inspired by Rumba, Conga, Afro-Cuban Jazz and Mambo.
Design a ‘seeing sound poster' using printed images and shapes, pieces of magazines, type, drawings, sentences, and typography. Listen, select, observe, reflect, and reconstruct images into this poster, exploring the possibilities of interdisciplinary design, figure-ground, hierarchy, overlap, color, diagonal activation, and layout to create impactful imagery. How does a song look like? Inspired by Rumba, Conga, Afro-Cuban Jazz and Mambo.