Hey all you music/design lovers!

Have a look at some different styles of music influenced poster designs

How music can positively influence your designs:

If you've ever had trouble getting a certain style down while designing, or you're thirsty for some fresh design inspiration, then use music to positively influence your designs. Music and visual design have a lot in common. See, visual designs have a certain vibe, textural quality, tempo of the arrangement, and an energy. The same goes for music: a vibe, tonal quality, tempo of the tune, and the level of energy.


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Brendon O' Dwyer on music and it's influence

Music is a huge part of my life, and it always has been. I can’t imagine life without it and I listen to it constantly. Sometimes, if I’ve gone a day or so without listening to any music, I’ll feel like there is something missing and soon realise I need to listen to that particular thought or feeling provoking song. -  BRENDON O’DWYER

Some festival posters for your inspiration!!

Some eye candy  -  music inspired logos:

The influence of music on designers and design in general:

Designers Tell How Music Influences Creativity

More Than Just Ear Candy

"Music can be used to activate, stimulate and relax the mind and body," Campbell says. "More and more businesses are recognizing the importance of music in a work environment."

One such work environment is Gil Shuler Design in downtown Charleston, SC, where staffers listen to everything from The Beatles, Miles Davis and The Isley Brothers to Zappa, The Beastie Boys and Filter. A central stereo system feeds speakers in several rooms, each with individual volume controls.

"I’d hate this place without music," says principal Gil Shuler. "The music creates a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. It puts you at ease and makes this more of a fun environment—not a stale, dry one."

Likewise at The Elephant Factory Design Co., a four-person design firm in Garden City, MI, near Detroit, where a single stereo unit belts out Ella Fitzgerald or The Rentals, depending on whose turn it is to play deejay. "I think music totally influences creativity—more so with the emotion of a particular design than with what Pantone I’m going to use," says Mark Penxa, owner and chief designer. "Some of our designs mimic the music we might’ve listened to that day; listening to ‘angry’ music might inspire an ‘angry’ piece."

Other firms agree that music can directly influence design. "Sometimes you get into such a subconscious groove with the music that it comes out in your projects," Vera says. "I used to do a lot of illustrations, and to get into that fantasy-world feeling, I’d put on Windham Hill music. Obviously, music influences us on deep subconscious levels."

John Besmer, principal of Planet Design Co. in Madison, WI, says the connection between music and creativity is undeniable. "If you’re working on a project that’s elegant and beautiful, you might listen to something like jazz, something that puts you in that mood," he says. "But if you’re designing an in-your-face project, you want music that gets you there. After all, you wouldn’t go to the gym and want to work out to a lullaby, right? Music shapes the message."

Most artists have been around the proverbial block often enough to realize that music is one of the most attainable dichotomies of spiritual and creative well-being and mental health. It’s both a stimulant and a relaxant, and we pop it as often as we can.

"The key is finding the right kind of music to stimulate creativity," says Gerald Haman, a creativity trainer with SolutionPeople, a creative brainstorming group in Chicago. "I recommend a variety, because every time the music shifts from one style to another, your brain shifts wave patterns, making you think in a slightly different way. I advise my clients to make their own recordings, in short segments, kind of like a ‘brain barrage,’ or like a channel scan on TV, except it’s all musical." The Elephant Factory’s Penxa says the firm’s favorite music is always the homemade mixed tapes staffers swap.

The goal for creative souls, Campbell says, is to "learn to regulate our minds and bodies using music, that phenomenal catalyst, to help us inwardly vision what we’re trying to accomplish." - http://bit.ly/zvmTBg