A Transitional Period for GLASSES

exploring + changing!

Last entry saw a pivot in the design for this newsletter, mainly in the title card graphic that usually lives up top. It went from a sort of full bleed publication style graphic, with a large header and photo of the artist, to a white square with the album cover front and centre, mimicking printing the cover on paper and marking it up.

That change took a lot of iteration and changes, there was even a version where I made the background into one of those green cutting mats you see in design studios. Nothing felt right, even the white background mentioned earlier. I felt like I had to leave it, just due to the fact that the Paramore review had to drop, and was already late.

Well. I’ve done yet more R&D. I have hopefully landed on something that feels like a nice middle ground between the two. I love having a picture of the artist, but also need a good presence of the album cover, because it is an album cover review after all. Also, just dropping the cover into the frame of the white square was boring, and I wanted to do more designing than that for each entry.

a placeholder album, just proof of concept.

Behold, the new title card for GLASSES. I hope you’re into it, I feel it has more personality than the second iteration, and again, merges the two in a graphically interesting way. It’s a dynamic design system, as the colour behind the album changes depending on its palette, and the artist photo changes too of course.

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Here’s to this new iteration sticking around!!! I think it’s nice, and here’s a little celebration of the first visual era—

and then the refinement/longest visual era—

To a bright future of GLASSES :) Thanks for sticking around while I figure out the identity of this new thing!!!