The Massive 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 third poster set in the series features five songs of Massive Attack. The illustrations are the result of an experiment based on John Wundes’ marvelous tutorial on some Illustrator tips and tricks about grouping-ungrouping-regrouping shapes with different stroking and blending. I’ve found the Dalliance typeface—designed by Frank Heine in 2001—befitting the trip-hop/psychedelic atmosphere of the band’s music and lyrics.