Record Cover Type Research

In the theme of protest banners and posters, I thought it would be more relevant to use a hands on approach for the type. Big thick bold lettering is common as to be seen from a far and within a crowd. The whole approach to protest art is rough, informal and very anti-establishment (no coherent rule, but rather by the people for the people). 
The whole Punk culture of the 70s was very much based on this lowbrow aesthetic of 'no rules'. 
The Sex Pistols would use collage of different sized letters, with upper and lower case combined, in a non consistent style, sometimes using spray paint to enhance the idea of anarchy.




However, I did not feel this aesthetic would go with the minimal look I was going for in the design, and as such felt an inconsistent and rouge design would be ideal however using maybe the medium of tape for the type. 

As such, I looked into Eddie Peake, who uses negative space to create his type / patterns, through placing tape down and using intense colour to accentuate this inverting technique. 

Two Separate Unbroken Geometric Lines
2016
Lacquered spray paint on polished stainless steel
39 3/8 x 55 1/8 x 2 1/16 in. (100 x 140 x 5.3 cm)
Photo: Todd-White Art Photography

'In Peake’s acid-coloured spray paintings, sharp-lettered slogans created with masking tape emerge through layers of spray paint to reveal the work’s polished steel ground, mirroring the viewer. The words and images shaped from negative space are a metaphor for gaps in language – and it is in this space that the viewer finds themselves. This fascination with the 'in-between' or gaps in language comprehension is as much an important aspect of Peake’s practice as is body politics. The themes meet in his series of poster and panel compositions, which contrast black and white photographs of nude figures with vibrant panels spelling out tag lines that teasingly enhance the work’s erotic subject matter. The intimation of tactility is also visible in Peake’s Handschmeichler, (or ‘pleasing to the hand’) sculptures, combining highly polished and hand-crafted amorphous plaster blobs with concrete architectonic structures; biomorphic forms caressed by the surface of a hard edged abstract monolith.'

His approach is particularly similar to that of what soapbox stands for, breaking conventions and speaking out from your own ideas, views and styles. 

Thus, I think creating lettering in his style would help highlight the protest qualities the songs have, and their links to political rejection of the mainstream .