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Unofficial
Poster design done in coordination with the fan account, Mac Miller Memoir (referenced below)
Mac Miller is written in the font used on the hat worn in his Tiny Desk show
The man fishing on the boat is his producer alter ego: Larry Fisherman
A yin yang symbol is a prevalent theme of his album, Swimming
Birds are one of the underlying themes of his second album
Pink clouds are imagery for his album The Divine Feminine
Circles is the final studio album by Mac Miller
On his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, our creative department was asked by Elton's team if we would contribute a unique poster for his performance in Memphis
This poster was not for sale
Unofficial
mac miller memoir
Mac Miller Memoir is the largest fan account in remembrance of the life and work of the artist, Mac Miller. I was approached by their team when they neared 100,000 followers to do a rebrand for their social media accounts. The collages above were inspired from this project.
The logo design is comprised of elements of Mac's work. The clouds are a reference to the clouds of his album The Divine Feminine while the half circle is for his posthumous album, Circles. The wave in the middle is a subtle reference to Swimming, the final album released in his lifetime, while also taking the shape of MMM.
All of the designs in this series (and the additional designs below) were designed using photos and text from past feature stories, which proved to be a challenge in itself to find elements that blended together.
Karen Meyers, Malcolm's mother
Fan giveaway done in coordination with Mac Miller Memoir. The goal of the album was to combine the cover aesthetics of his 2014 mixtape, Faces, and 2020 album, Circles.
The Faces artwork is a yellow background with a wide range of Colors and Shapes, which is also the name of the 17th song on the project.
Other references are the waves for Swimming and birds for a theme of Watching Movies With The Sound Off. Mac is from Pittsburgh hence the map and skyline imagery.
Same idea as the Mac collage above in that I wanted to take images and copy from old feature stories to make a collage featured around a limited color palette.
BACKGROUND
One dreary weekend, I found a set of photos from the 1920s quirky enough to be abnormal. They documented unknown people in everyday experiences. These images were essential solely to the families when taken, but time has made them essential to our understanding of past life
I used modern albums to see which themes could be ambiguous enough to blend through time. The video below uses audio from an ambient recording I took on the banks of the Mississippi River; the same river which Jeff Buckley drowned in three years after the completion of the only album released in his lifetime, Grace
Collage set; for fun
