Competition Brief - Visual Sound Waves - Panic sounds

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Panic-sounds/444074

I came across these brilliant illustrations which were designed for CD covers. I think they're a brilliant way of representing sound, and the variety of sounds and pitches from the subject illustrations also on the CD cover designs.

Competition - Sound into words

http://butdoesitfloat.com/I-take-sounds-and-change-them-into-words

I came across a really interesting project called 'I take sounds and change them into words' which is similar to what I'm trying to achieve - Sound into a visual. Since products based on audio, I wanted to look at CD covers, and see how they communicate sound.

Using literally written music, alongside shapes and blocks of colour. 

Using a renowned song and sound title related to music alongside musical instrument names. The coloured shapes too could almost represent a piano in the way they've been laid out.

Competition Brief - Ways to represent sound

http://www.oniondesign.com.tw/detail.php?id=209

I came across the design material for an event called Archi-rock, its aimed at creatives. Their event promotional posters remind me of sound, and movement. Almost looking light stones being dropped into water at different heights and strengths, thus the differentiating waves surrounding the circles. I want to create something which creates this immediate link.

Competition Brief - Visual Sound waves

http://designspiration.net/image/755169000832/

Again, I wanted to visually explore the methods of which sound can be visually presented. I really like the way line has represented the sound of light, and the speed of which it travels. The use of colours too, the vibrant light colours on black, representing light as it were.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

Another area I thought I could potentially look into was crafting, making 3D objects to reflect sound. Although a good visual communicator I'm unsure of whether at this point I'd have the time to spend.

Competition Brief - Sound Waves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxzMzSZF_b4

I wanted to explore different methods of visually showing sound, this being just one I came across on a video, a fluorescent light bounces and moves in accordance to music played, this was then recorded.

Competition Brief - Collecting content

http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices

I've looked into the website to try and depict phrases  from the range of locations but I've found the people who have been interviewed lack a strong accent, and actually come from a range of locations, some in the location, some as far as 100 miles away. I don't feel this would be appropriate or factual to my posters, so I Intend on looking into the content collected for my publications and depicting regional phrases to instead use, and design to become onomatopoeic.

Regional phrases used within my publications:

Birmingham - 'Our Wench'
Liverpool - That's when Jesus Christ was playing full back for Israel
Newcastle - Ye knaa what ah mean leik
Yorkshire - See-a-man abart-a-dog
Ireland - Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble?

To begin with I want to start with the 5 phrases, to create a larger range for each location once I've achieved the initial 5 poster designs.

Accessorzie - Looking for nets

So I went through the packaging nets books at Uni to try and find some appropriate formats for my patterns to be applied to. From these I have created and adapted nets and hopefully will be printing and constructing them this week.