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Music symphony on microchip?

For Tristan Perich the border between art and science is very thin. Most probably there is no border at all. Tristan uses his artistic skills and knowledge of electronics and programming to create works which go beyond strict frames and conceptions.

Can a microchip play music symphony? Well, it can be if you add soul to it and Tristan Perich proves that it is possible to create good music with it. You can read this information on
Tristan’s website: 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

Tristan Perich shortly describes “1-bit Symphony” project

More music excerpts from “1-bit Symphony”

Another project which drew my attention is called “Machine Drawings”. Drawings made without human, entirely drawn by machines programmed and built by Tristan Perich. Algorithms applied with some level of randomness give these works a touch of soul- that’s what I feel at least while looking at these drawings.

Pleaseletmedesign.com is a design agency based in Belgium consisting of 3 creative individuals: Pierre, Damien and Morgan.

Those three young lads have got big imagination, head full of interesting, creative ideas and skills to develop their ideas into marvelous works.

1. jauneorange compilation #4 (packaging + pencil)

Using the concept of crosswords, mind puzzles, pencil & paper games Pleaseletmedesign created an eye-catching music album packaging. I still keep smiling when I see it- so simple and at the same time so good!

2. iQ Font (Typography & Car)

Are you already tired of all those different strange fonts? Fonts made of ketchup, toothpaste, straws etc. So prepare for the real weird-font-killer: a font made by a car. Yes, you read it correctly – by a CAR :)

Here is how they did it:

Here is the final result:

3. Ou est l’Eldorado (A poster for a documentary)

4. Experimental Tropic Blues Band (album cover)

Alexis Marcou is a young Greek designer who creates beautiful drawings and illustrations.
Gallery on Behance

Grzegorz Domaradzki (iamgabz.com)- another Polish designer who makes it big. Beautiful style- drawings with a bit of Photoshop or Illustrator (or both). Looks cool! And one day I would like to have an ability of working just like Grzegorz- being a freelancer who can choose what projects to work on and doing stunning work.

Cover illustration proposal for Polish music duo Kucz&Kulka / pencil, AI and PS / 2009 / Rejected (cited from iamgabz.com)
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Personal project (pencil & Photoshop)

T-Shirt illustration for Ardentees (pen, AI and PS)

“Create What You Are”- Illustration for Digital Temple Magazine (pencil and PS)

Info taken from UNIT’s website:

UNIT is the collective and collaborative work of UK designers Si Billam and James Sanderson. We work globally across music, fashion, lifestyle and youth culture. Together we craft, construct, experiment and play with ideas.

UNIT (We are, This is) work on various fields of graphic design. They have created quite huge amount of music CD covers. Their typography skills are the thing that caught my attention.

Si and James have worked for clients including: EA Games, MTV, Coca Cola, Human Studio, Universal Everything, Pollinate Records, Carbon Logic Publishing, Computer Arts, Urban Splash.