Within the «Poster Lab» elective, the assignment was to design a poster for a concert by the jazz trio of Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky, Andrey Razin, and Pyotr Ivshin. The core concept of the project is to convey the feeling of musical improvisation as one of the foundational principles of jazz.
The process was akin to the music itself, structured as an improvisation. Predicting the outcome in advance was impossible because each stage introduced new variables—the color of the paper, the printing method, the specified font, and the medium for applying the text.
The poster consists of two layers: the photograph, which serves as the foundation, and the typography, which complements it and imbues the image with new meaning.
First layer—a close-up portrait of my sister. Blurred, dissolving into a lilac haze, with dancing highlights—enigmatic, unsettling, and calming all at once—it conveys the atmosphere of jazz music—not overtly, but delicately.
In a twist of fate (or perhaps musical improvisation?), the solution for the second, typographic layer was found accidentally: text blocks that fell onto the sheet and gathered in heaps became the foundation of the composition. Thus, as if shifted by a careless hand, the lines leap in the rhythm of jazz from the right edge of the poster, taking on the role of the first violin mirroring the gaze captured in the photograph. A tension emerges between this gaze and the typographic mass.
