EXPRESSIVE TYPOGRAPHY POSTER

Farah Rezaee
4 min readDec 11, 2017

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B2dhA6_LEw

Photograph

Ed Sheeran

Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes
But it’s the only thing that I know
When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing that makes us feel alive

We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time’s forever frozen still

So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer ’til our eyes meet
You won’t ever be alone, wait for me to come home

Loving can heal, loving can mend your soul
And it’s the only thing that I know, know
I swear it will get easier,
Remember that with every piece of you
Hm, and it’s the only thing we take with us when we die

Hm, we keep this love in this photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts were never broken
And time’s forever frozen still

So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer ’til our eyes meet
You won’t ever be alone

And if you hurt me
That’s okay baby, only words bleed
Inside these pages you just hold me
And I won’t ever let you go
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home
Wait for me to come home

You can fit me
Inside the necklace you got when you were sixteen
Next to your heartbeat where I should be
Keep it deep within your soul

And if you hurt me
Well, that’s okay baby, only words bleed
Inside these pages you just hold me
And I won’t ever let you go

When I’m away, I will remember how you kissed me
Under the lamppost back on Sixth street
Hearing you whisper through the phone,
“Wait for me to come home.”

Typography Poster Inspiration
First Design
Exploration
Final Design

The song is a love song from Ed Sheeran. I used light orange for back ground to give the warm sense of love. The font for lyric is Myriad Pro. I used MrsEaves which is new modern, condense but it is unique and humanist sans-serif font. I used this MrsEaves because it give the typical strong and positive sense of Love.

The songs says love can hurt too but at the end he ask his love to wait for him at their home. Therefore, I used the specific in way that it is sound effect come out and one of the part is stronger which wait for me to come home.

I used warm color like red which is symbol of love and orange as well. I used blue because is very great color complementary color to go with red and orange. Also, There is two very emotional parts in this song which are time’s forever frozen still, and we keep this love in this photography, so I used blue to emphasize the photography which means frozen or capturing a moment and here it was about his love. I used the circle to highlight more the focal point of lyric and the sound effect.Also, the circle are like the speakers.

I tried to reveal the meaning of love which hurtful at the same time by using informal design ,humanist font and using warm colors to communicate love and using some cold color to explain that love can hurts too.

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