REGGAE TREE | South Korea
Reggae is a tradition and growing up like a vast tree.
Reggae is a tradition and growing up like a vast tree.
We’re Jammin is a poster that was inspired by the works of Keith Haring and other line artists.
While I was creating this poster, i felt really inspired by the little prince story from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book. I wanted to tell, that reggae world is like a different planet, is something that is always near us and its always somewhere close, doesn’t matter where you are, in which part of our planet. Reggae music is something unique, something like from a different universe, but in the same time feels so natural, like the beat of our hearts. It’s teaching us how to be better persons, like the little prince does.
A type-based atmospheric Dancing Poster is another way I’m exploring the Reggae phenomenon. This Poster isn’t afraid to get dirty, minimal and explore a literal twist from the center outwards. The challenge was to capture a very particular vibe and aesthetic with no other visuals but letters and textures. The backdrop is the beginning of 80s – me sitting in a sunny living room in my birth town Riga, being 3 years old, playing with the swedish cubes, retro music on the background. I’m happy! I love this design, brings me back to that moment.
This is a typographic poster design. In the poster it simply gives the message `Reggae Music Will Make you happy’ in a creative design. So, the message is that Reggae music is a therapy that can change a person’s mood into happy. The ultimate message from the poster to the world is, whatever mood you’re on, whatever situation you’re in, listening to reggae will makes you happy. With happiness there is peace.
Colors used are the colors of reggae culture.
The composition is radial, showing the center guitar. Refering to the classic scene in the animation work, the birth of Lion King Simba, the baboon holding up the guitar, representing the king of music.
International reggae music posters are used to spread and promote reggae music, a Jamaican pop music evolved from ska and rock steady music, which has become the mainstream of rock music in the world. In the poster, I used “n” and “d” as the first letters of “nuclear” and “disarmament”. The symbol of peace links all kinds of people’s worship of reggae music in the way of relay. It has a general name of unity and peace and music.
国际雷鬼音乐海报用以传播、弘扬雷鬼音乐——一种由斯卡(Ska)和洛克斯代迪(Rock Steady)音乐演变而来的牙买加流行音乐,已经成为世界摇滚音乐的主流。海报中我用了“N”和“D”是“Nuclear”和“Disarmament”的第一个字母,和平标志把各种人对雷鬼音乐的崇拜用接力的方式连系在一起,有一种团结和和平与音乐的总称。
The heart of Reggae is to Love the life, Resist the ennui, Free from oppression, and to Act. And I believe that is the exact message that the world needs now. People are caging themselves in virtual worlds of internet and SNS and “smart” things, while forgetting what really is real, what their lives can actually do, and as a lover of Reggae music and as an artist, I just cannot stand that. I shout with the poster I made : “Reggae for Life”, expressing my love of the music and the culture(Reggae ‘for life’), and shouting out that Reggae will save our lives(Reggae for ‘Life’).