Song Lyric Series
• poster design • typography • illustration •
An ever-growing collection of poster style designs based off of song lyrics from various songs that I resonate with. As a visual thinker, envisioning the song and music I'm listening to is crucial to the entire experience. I wanted to start transferring that aspect of my life into design work and will continually update this page as I explore more music and fall deeper in love with it.
Ptolemaea by Ethel Cain
The song, “Ptolemaea”, would be nearly impossible to fully explain without expanding into the entire masterpiece of an album that is Preacher’s Daughter, but I’ll do my best. This song is named after Ptolemy, one of the circles in Hell from Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, where traitors reside. This song could be interpreted as Cain’s lover being the ultimate traitor by using abuse in the name of love and ultimately and tragically taking her life.
Bite The Hand by boygenius
“Bite the Hand” is a song about loving someone you know you can’t love the way they deserve. It ties into this idea of a doomed relationship, which can be one of the motifs found in the movie Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, which is why I chose to include elements from the film. You can see transcripts from the film when you, as the viewer, are in the protagonist, Joel’s mind, watching a memory of his be reenacted as a figment of his imagination. Being that his love interest, Clementine, is not actually there but is just a fabricated version of herself, I kept her lines in italics so as to appear more allusive.
Shake Off Your Flesh by The Huntress and the Holder of Hands
“Shake Off Your Flesh” by The Huntress and the Holder of Hands is equal parts haunting and ethereal. Her powerful lyrics about untapped rage and frustration shine through, especially when she says, “Beneath my breasts, There burns a fire, of blood and flesh, of sound and wire. It won’t be quenched ‘till I retire from wretchedness, that dark desire.” The intensity of both the music itself and the lyrics warranted my inclusion of the cybersigilism assets that I drew myself.