Looking at Rock Family Trees

I have been looking at the style of Rock Family Trees, which is a book originally created by Pete Frame. I have been looking at these because I have been thinking of making a poster that incorporates many artists of XL Recordings, and putting them in the style of a family tree or time line would work well for this.
 
Looking at the way these family trees are constructed, they are completely based are around text, and he uses different typographic styles to give the family trees n artistic style, rather than just being information on a page. They are set out in a way that the there is no leftover space left on the page, filling it up with his own stylised text and adding informative text to some of these family trees.

Changing Concept

After getting feedback from my concept arlier in the week, I have decided to change my idea as I wasn't too happy with how my mock up posters came out, and my teacher felt that it wasn't stong enough as a concept yet.
I have decided to change my idea to incorporate all of XL Recordings' history, rather than just focus on a single XL artist.
Ways in which this can be done could be like a family tree, or a timeline of the events.

Poster Compositions

These are two poster compositions I cam up with which didn't invole The Beatles posters, but rather focused on the "old and new" theme that I have come up with. The first poster brings together the art style of Sandra Suy, and mixes it with the art style of the 1960's psychedelic posters. The second poster is a contrast of colours; using the monochrome style of her album covers with the colourfulness of the old 60s art.

Planning PDF

Here are some screenshots of the PDF showing my planning and thought processes that I made for the planning deadline for the project.

Initial Sketches

I have drawn some pictures of Adele so I can compose my images digitally, and also sketched up some compositions ideas.

These two sketches are compositions that mix The Beatles's covers with Adele's. The first sketch is Adele's 19 cover mixed with With the Beatles and the second is the With the Beatles cover with Adele's portrait on it.

 

This composition uses the image of Adele singing, and the lines coming from Adele is the style of the 60s posters. The poster mixes the art styles of a modern artist and the psychedelic posters from the 60s.

1960s Psychedelic Posters

After choosing my theme of 60s meeting the present, I have looked at music posters from the decade. They are an iconic part of the 60s art movements, and would work well with the XL Recordings brief as they are related to music. As I like using colour in my artwork, the use of colour in these posters is inspiring for my illustrations.

Looking for Inspiration - Various Artists

As I am struggling to find inspiration for my ideas, I have looked up various artists and found work that I like, and I will use when experimenting with my posters.

This is some of Sandra Suy's artwork. The style used on the models is simplistic, and is contrasted by the colours used on the clothing. I like this style as it mixes realism with hand-drawn, and the contrast in the beige background and the bold colours used on the clothes works well.

Steve Simpson's artwork also uses a lot of colour, and her uses a cortoon-esque drawing style on his characters to make his pictures look unique. His work also uses a lot of typography, which he uses to good effect.

I looked at Julie Dillon's work because the subject matter of her art interested me, as well as the way she drew her pieces. She uses a lot of bright colours in the backgrounds of her pictures, which contrasts with the realistic style used on the characters.

The Beatles Ablum Covers

These are the two Beatles covers that were in the Top 5 simultaneously in the 1960s. They were "With the Beatles" and "Please Please Me". It could incorporate these into my composition, along with Adele's covers, especially sing the "With The Beatles" cover has very similar lighting techniques to Adele's album covers. Adele also had a monochrome album cover, so I could make a composition combining the two.

Details on Adele's Ablum and Single Success

"Adele has become the first artist since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time. Buoyed by her rendition at last week's Brit awards, the singer's newest single, Someone Like You, jumped 46 spots to become her first No 1 hit. That song joins Rolling in the Deep, which sits at No 4; on the album charts, Adele's first two LPs – 21 and 19 – are also at No 1 and No 4 respectively.
The last time an artist had top five hits on both charts, Sir Alec Douglas-Home was prime minister. It was January 1964: Britain and America were in the throes of Beatlemania, with I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You filling the airwaves while the albums With the Beatles and Please Please Me flew off the shelves."
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/22/adele-matches-beatles-chart-success

Looking at Adele's Album Covers

For my research, I have looked at Adele's two album covers that were in the Top 5. They are both similar in design, , using a dark background and focusing on the face of Adele. They also both share similar lighting techniques, which uses a large contrast between dark and light.

Initial Ideas

For my poster, I have decided to use the event "Adele becomes the first artist since The Beatles to simultaneously have two albums in the Top 5 and two Top 5 singles.", as I have came up with the idea of mixing the past with the present, or to mix Adele's and The Beatle's album covers together to make a poster composition.

For mixing old and new, I was thinking of looking at artists movements from the era and looking at some artists from today that I like the art style of and mixing them into one composition.