An infographic about Jacob deGrom, the best pitcher in baseball, and the season where that statement rang true.

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Splash page for a band’s website. On click, for purposes of the assignment (and because, well, we don’t have a website), it redirects you to this website.

This is an icon set that could be used for a potential band website. The colors I used for this are the colors that represent my band, however, anybody could easily change the colors as they deem fit.

The first icon is an attempt at the classic home button – just a pretty simple house shape, not much to be said about it here.

The second icon is a vinyl disc coming out of its sleeve. This is meant to represent a discography page of the website where users can purchase/download all the music made by the band.

The third icon is supposed to be a group of people all huddled together. This is meant to represent a social media page, with the color of each shirt of the alleged people is corresponds to the big social media platforms that a band may have (in order from left to right: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube). I believe that since these corporations are so prominent in the lives of young people today that even by just looking at these colors grouped together in the context of a website people are going to know what it means. The icon does, however, kind of lose a lot of its meaning without color, however, I still believe that it at the very least evokes enough of a feeling of community and society that users will understand what it means.

Lastly, the fourth icon is an interpretation of the classic “information ‘i'””. This is meant to represent the about page of the band, where you can learn more information about it, such as tour dates, lyrics, bios, etc.

The modern day pop punk scene is the unholy intersection of nerd culture, emo culture, and stoner culture. Being as this is the band’s “main point of entry”, this typography is designed to appeal to people in all three.

The design of the typography itself is inspired by the original poster for the 1936 film “Reefer Madness” – and anti-marijuana film that has sustained a cult following who view it as a satire. This is a pretty obscure reference, but luckily, the original poster was hand-drawn, so the fonts used kind of resemble some comic book fonts that are available today. This attracts the comic book crowd, the primary component of nerd culture, who are drawn to this genre of music. The subheading at the top is meant for the people who were the emo kids in highschool, the people who make up the majority of the fanbase. It says “Women jam to it – Men also jam to it”, and who loves to jam more than former emo kids, who’ve spent their adolescence jamming, and haven’t had the opportunity to since.

Speaking of the subheading – on the original poster, there was one that read “Women cry for it – Men die for it”, the “it” obviously referring to marijuana. I thought that this dated phrase could be construed as kind of sexist, and that saying this about a band would be too much, so I settled for something that promoted equality and the overall feel of our sound – “jamming”.

Fonts used:

Super Comic from dafont.com

Avengeance Mightiest Avengers from dafont.com