Song Book - Snake Eater

This project is about making a song book. We chose a song and design a book based on its lyrics and feeling. The song i chose was SnakeEater by Cynthia Harrell. This book is TYPE based for its solution and there to be no images and photographs. 

I ued Baour Bodini for her voice and Serifa for the background effect/canopy. 

The problem i had to solve for was based around my old ideals of type. I used to only use warps and other skewing type solutions to solve my type problems. I need to play more with scale, rhythm, balance, and many elements and principals of design that i normally lacked. 

In this book I solve the problem by manipulating the type properly. I use the massive letters to represent the canopy and the density of a forest fore the “person” is on an adventure thought the book. The color camouflage is used to help the type have some dimension and foreground/ background. The body of the book take the form of a snake, because its called SNAKE eater. 

((LYRICS))

Snake Eater Lyrics - Cynthia Harrell

What a thrill... 

With darkness and silence through the night 

What a thrill... 

I'm searching and I'll melt into you 

What a fear in my heart 

But you're so supreme!

 I'd give my life 

Not for honour, but for you! [Snake Eater] (whisper)

In my time there'll be no one else 

Crime, it's the way I fly to you! [Snake Eater] 

I'm still in a dream, 

Snake Eater! 

Someday you go through the rain 

And someday, you feed on a tree frog 

This ordeal, the trial to survive 

For the day we see new light! 

I'd give my life 

Not for honour, but for you! [Snake Eater] 

In my time there'll be no one else 

Crime, it's the way I fly to you! [Snake Eater] 

I'm still in a dream, 

Snake Eater! 

I am still in a dream, 

Snake Eater! 

[Snake Eater] ((whisper))

The Book goes together to create a fold together (fold out) snake with a head and a tail (not shown yet).

This is meant to be heard along with the song and give type feeling to song as if it was only shown through type and nothing else. Even the sounds are given "form" as the type snakes its way through the "canopy" which is the giant letters which in themselves spell out Snake Eater. 

As always there is a long process to reach these end results and I will put up this process another time. This took three weeks to create.