PORTFOLIO
Emely Silva
Client Details
Client: Art Center at Night
Category: Magazine Spread
Date: 2017
Category: Magazine Spread
Date: 2017
This piece is a result of an assignment at art center from a typography class. The objective was to create a three page spread that includes a timeline expressed with type. For this assignment I chose an academic article that discusses an underground music scene in the Los Angeles Latino community. The type on page two and three is a timeline expression of glass shattered from a bullet.
This assignment and class helped me understand the importance of typographical hierarchy. In addition, I explored various methods of creating contrast between information to guide the reader.
a bit of the process
Version 1
ACN – NarcoCorridos - V2
Version 2
Brainstorming
Storyline
- Old corrido vs new corrido
- Commercial corrido vs commissioned corrido
- Tells a timeline of the development of the modern “narcocorrido”
Other Gathered Thoughts
- Corrido emerged quickly in LA because it was prohibited to play in mass media in Mexico
Pull quote options
– We cannot close our eyes and ignore our reality
– Ethnic groups are claiming the right to keep their own identity
– Young men from rural areas or disreputable urban neighborhoods are most likely to feel the tension between socially and culturally induced aspirations and their own inability to realize those aspirations in a legitimate way
Word Association
- political vehicle
- multiculturalism
- assimilation
- narcocorrido
- subculture
- protest
- music
- boots
- hats
- drugs
- money
- guns
- deaths
- bass cello
- tuba
- accordion
- immigrants
- Los Angeles
- Mexico
- AK-47
- Drug trafficking
- Trucks
- bazooka
- Aggressive
- Robin hood
- Old corrido
- Commercial corrido
- Commissioned corrido
- Bulletproof vest