The Form Of Music Poster Design

The pace of life is getting better in today’s society, it’s very common to enjoymusic in spare time. In order to provide the best enjoy hearing, variety of music types,all kinds of music modes of publicity have been prevalence. Poster design is one of themost effective way of publicities, just like a silent communicator. An increasingnumber of music and concert music posters design not only bring new challenges butalso expand opportunities. It also will bring more happiness to people.Music is composed of sound. The movement of sound always can express theartist’s emotional ups and downs. The rhythm of the high and low voice, length、strength、rhythm and others are consisted the elements of music; Poster design isconsisted of graphic arts, graphics, colors, text, texture and others. Although music andposter are two different forms of art, there still many similarity between them. Thefusion and interinfiltration can help us feel the invisible music through visual, silentposter works.And also it can impart vitality and energy to the music. Music posterdesign has a unique position in the graphic design filed and also it’s very prominent inculture of image publicity design.This article outlines the form of the basic concepts of music poster. It concludesmusic and the basic concepts of Music constitution and elements, and the evolution ofmusic poster design, which has been developing since16th and17th centuries. Then,after knowing relevant informations, we will deeply analyze the form’s detail. It nothard to divide the form into two: one is to restore the concrete form of expression ofthe true image of things, the other is respectively inherited Kandinsky and MengDelisafety’ painting in theperformance. Whether forms or abstract forms,music posterdesign have to be from graphics, colors, text to constitute the visual elements.Although there are many types of music, we just select four that are mostrepresentative types of music, to analyze them. From the morphology of classicalmusic to jazz, from rock music to electronic music, we have got something. Then, we concluded after knowing the different background of period that classical music posteralways use painting and photography as the main elements, which have graceful colorsand balanced, ornamental, contrastive design forms. But it’s not great in the designfield to compare with the later music’s form.Then we will research Jazz poster design from Kindt Kaiser and NicholasZhuo’s works, who’s work are very impressed to the emotions of people’s lives. Wecan get to know it’s full of free unrestrained feeling and happiness; Rock music isheavily influenced by the pop culture and the psychedelic music. So we can see thatthe features are more irrational, individual, traitorous; With the development of scienceand technology into the era of electronic music, cheerful colorful, trendy andinnovative are the features of electronic music posters. Through the analysis, we canlearn that all kinds of styles of music posters are determined by the background ofperiod and the culture of the time. So we must not only take into account on thecompetition of market, but also consider how we can spread the connotation ofdifferent types of music art listening better.Of course, we have to synthesize all ofelements of successful parts, through perceptual and rational analysis and following thenature of musical art, to provide the best poster design to our people. Finally, we havetalked something about the outlook and expectation of music poster design’s tendency.