The Beefheart Transcription Project

The Transcription Projects series are conceptual poster sets about my favorite performers in rock and avantgarde music. The typography with the accompanying illustration more or less reflecting on the words of the songs function together as semi-booklet pages of the musicians’ compilation albums, lacking only the obligatory cover design (and the hard work of selecting more than 5–7 songs from the artists’ repertoire). The first in the series—lyrics of Captain Beefheart—presents another result of pure Context Free Design Grammar not using any Photoshop or other image editing afterwork. The ChaletComprimé typeface—created by Paul van der Laan for a companion family of House Industries’ Chalet—used throughout the whole design is the one I used in several other projects too these years.