Einstein on the Beach: 
A Typographic Score

2016

Description:

A submission to the International Society of Typographic Designers Student Assessment, this book is a typographic reinventing of the musical score of the opera Einstein on the Beach, music by Philip Glass.

Skills

Typography, Book Design, Information Design, Adobe Illustrator + Indesign

 

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Traditional music staff reinvented into a typographic system that's both function and beautiful.

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The score for Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass is experimental and arcane, and required an experimental approach to translate the meaning of the music.

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Transparent pages allow the visual layering of different musical instruments to see the piece as a whole.

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