Ken Taylor plays up to the country
Ken Taylor creates vivid images out of the ambiguous themes of love, life and loss prevalent in the lyrics and music of the Avett Brothers.
Ken Taylor creates vivid images out of the ambiguous themes of love, life and loss prevalent in the lyrics and music of the Avett Brothers.
If you’ve heard music by the Avett Brothers then you’ve let yourself get lulled into the country and contemplated love and loss.
The band’s music and lyrics throw up opportunities for all kinds of visual imagery that might describe the complexity of these themes and so it’s fertile ground for any poster designer.
Scroll below to see Ken Taylor’s series of posters inspired by the band. Each takes a different perspective. Pay special attention to the tightly rendered wooden textures, billowing drapes, wisps of smoke and clouds that are so intricate in their detail that you have to slow down to appreciate them properly. And in that way Ken succeeds at matching the pace of the music.
The first poster design below created a unique challenge in that the event was dated around Halloween and hence the brief was to create a poster that depicted the band in a Halloween context. Had the band been Punk or Metal, Ken could easily have cast blood spurting gored zombies or screaming topless girls in his posters but a laconic country band needed more tact.
Ken’s solution was a beautiful moment of lost love. The floating apparition of the musician’s loved one listening intently as he plays to her tombstone set the tone as spooky. No less relevant to Halloween but more respectful to the band than horror or candy.
The band’s music and lyrics throw up opportunities for all kinds of visual imagery that might describe the complexity of these themes and so it’s fertile ground for any poster designer.
Scroll below to see Ken Taylor’s series of posters inspired by the band. Each takes a different perspective. Pay special attention to the tightly rendered wooden textures, billowing drapes, wisps of smoke and clouds that are so intricate in their detail that you have to slow down to appreciate them properly. And in that way Ken succeeds at matching the pace of the music.
The first poster design below created a unique challenge in that the event was dated around Halloween and hence the brief was to create a poster that depicted the band in a Halloween context. Had the band been Punk or Metal, Ken could easily have cast blood spurting gored zombies or screaming topless girls in his posters but a laconic country band needed more tact.
Ken’s solution was a beautiful moment of lost love. The floating apparition of the musician’s loved one listening intently as he plays to her tombstone set the tone as spooky. No less relevant to Halloween but more respectful to the band than horror or candy.
