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Alliteration Inspiration: Music & Minimalism

Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s thematic combo: music & minimalism.

MUSIC

Everybody has their go-to soundtrack for getting in the creative zone (which you may even be listening to right now), so we’re doubling down to make this a visually inspirational musical moment too. Though there may only ten of these music-based masterpieces below, they’re guaranteed to make your creativity go to eleven.

Alberto Saorin / Album art & packaging design – Hombre al Agua, Cuerpo a Tierra by Those

Standapart / Brand identity – Opera Australia

David Hale / Screenprinted gig poster – Avett Brothers

Brandon Land / Logo – Rose Rock Recording Studio

Eve Warren / Record sleeve design concepts – Alt-J

Anton Burmistrov / Poster design concept – Jazzed and Confused

Freakland / Illustration

Ilse Weisfelt & Joren Joshua / Illustration & poster design – Boombox Festival

Oliver Elliott & Alex Penny / Illustration & silkscreened postcards – Gary the Musical Enigma

Neil Williams / Screenprinted gig poster – Queens of the Stone Age

MINIMALISM

Less but better. Pun. Look. Ten.

Hey / Print design – Agenda CCCB

Kirk Wallace / Illustration & tattoo design

Hunter Langston / Movie poster – Dallas Buyers Club

Alberto Saorín / Branding – Good Food

Archie Archambault / Letterpress print

Christopher David Ryan / Typography

Sean Heisler / Logo

Jane / Print design – Wendy Gough Cancer Awareness Foundation

Ty Wilkins / Illustrations

Andren / Book cover designs