Metallica

Not as if I were a huge Metallica fan (I’m afraid to confess: I’m not a Metallica fan at all), but the band had found me before I’d had found them. Chosen by a fellow student at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, our second task (of the total three) for the final exam of the Typography Classes was a poster design for an existing or imaginary band, venue or event. The method of choosing the theme by someone else from the class resulted in a list of everyone’s own favorite performers possibly unknown for the final designer—and that’s how I met James Hetfield & Co. for the first time at age 38. (Shame. I know.) Absolutely uninspired by their music, I finally found somewhere an acoustic performance which I considered almost listenable, so this bootleg of 30 minutes was rotated 0–24 while drawing the graphics. The illustration of the bear head was derived from an existing photo of a real life object, edited with several filters and layer blending modes. The strict, centrally adjusted and segmented composition required a corresponding typeface, therefore I have picked my second favorite one, the Teuton form František Štorm emphasizing the industrial spirit of the music.