In Smooth Moves poster I wanted to capture the lighthearted and happy feeling of just feeling
the rhythm of the music and moving or dancing to the beat. I also wanted to show how music
can emanate good vibes, in this case reggae music so I chose the colors usually associated
with it to be the good vibes coming from the headphones.
“Peaceful World with Reggae”.
In the poster, the pixels show the digitalization of the world. And the text ‘music of peace’ highlighting through the pixels shows, even the world is digitalizing the reggae music can bring peace into you. The colors give the mood of reggae music and the peace you can gain from listen to reggae music. Through the poster it interprets the message that reggae music can brings peace to the world.
One of the interactive effects of this poster is when viewer look from distance the text can be seen clearly. Which means to invites the viewers to take a wide look into reggae music where they will able to find peace and love themselves.
Lion symbolizes reggae sharing it’s love to the world.
People around the world are listening to reggae songs and this leads to peace.
Reggea always the music of peace and I think we need word peace. With music, patience, passion and love we’ll have word peace.
In this poster, I try to explain this. The color of our skin, what religion we belive, what gender we are doesn’t matter anymore. We just need peace and love.
My initial inspiration was sparked by Mikayla “Koffee” Simpson winning the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Reggae album, making her the first woman to take home that award since the category was added in 1985.
Koffee’s win comes at a time just as female reggae artists are rising in popularity internationally, bucking the trend of being overshadowed by their male counterparts.
Before designing this poster, I had very little knowledge about reggae music. During my research, I discovered so many talented women, like Etana, Queen Ifrica, Grace Jones, Rihanna, Lady Saw, Lila Ike, Shenseea, Sister Nancy, Jah9, Jane Macgizmo, and many others. I would put them all on my poster if I could.
Their music inspired me to create “Clap for Queens of Reggae,” a colorful homage to all female reggae artists. The goddess of music is at the center, wearing the traditional colors of Jamaica. She watches over the two women who represent traditional and modern reggae. They have come a long way, but there is still much work to do.
With this poster, I hope to send a message of awareness, hope, and inspiration while also celebrating the contributions that reggae music has brought to the world.
A celestial, Rastafarian lion submerges the world in his culture and wisdom- he shares his insight with the world.
I wanna show the strength, kingship and pride of being African by representing a Lion with a music boom box and a headset represent their love on music and style with a touch of a sunglasses representing the calming and cool vibes of their music. I got the title from showing the lion’s head which is shape of a heart while the boombox and the headset shows the beat of the heart like a stethoscope where you hear the heart beat of a person.
Cosmic Hand that touches a record to express the voice of Jah through reggae
In my design, I have depicted a dreadlocked woman with her hair covering her face, wearing a blue set of headphones, a red shirt with a heart, and gold charms in her hair. Above her head reads ” We’re Jammin!” in green and red, with golden music notes floating. Finally, she has pink lips and a white line across her neck showing the vibrations flowing through her from the music.