| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 美術學系在職進修碩士班 === 99 === This creation and research is to explore the relationships among Mandarin typographic design in music album covers, material and texture of album covers, and music genre of the albums concerned, and to apply the analyzed design model to simulated underground band’s album covers. The literature review will focus on the evolution and features of the Mandarin font and typeface as well as the history of Taiwan’s underground music development. The development of Taiwan’s underground music may be divided into three periods: (1) Taiwan new music—the Crystal Records Period, (2) Independent creation—the Taiwan Color Music Period, and (3) the Band Generation Period, based on which the development of the album cover design is to be reviewed and analyzed. The typographic forms, the typographic expressions, and the music genres of the music albums as a whole may be classified into five types, including the simple and concise type, the steady and rigid type, the elegant and delicate type, the round and refined type, and the combination type. The forms of the fonts may be divided into four categories: the original, transformed, decoration, and interesting ones. The material texture may be categorized into soft texture, hard texture, and combined texture.
Subsequent to the analysis of the forms of Mandarin fonts, the present creation and research innovates different visual styles in typographic design of music album covers for seven music genres commonly adopted by underground bands, including (1) JAZZ, (2) R&B, (3) COUNTRY/ FOLK, (4) PUNK, (5) LATIN, (6) ELECTRONIC, and (7) HIP HOP. Each of the music genres is expressed in a unique visual style and paired with a matching form of fonts and texture in order to achieve the appropriateness, identifiability, artistic sense, and uniqueness of the typographic design to the greatest extent and verify the designs that can best serve the aim of this creation and research.
There is still much room for exploring the forms of Mandarin fonts in music album cover design. Not only graphic design but also the application of multimedia or the material of package offers great possibilities of innovative development. By exploring the typographic design in music album covers, the present creation and research is aimed at providing reference for the cover and package design of music albums in the future.
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