AUDIO CHROMA: The Power of Music and Design

A graphic design project created by Matthew Washausen.

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AUDIO CHROMA: The Power of Music and Design Video by Matthew Washausen.

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Animated AUDIO CHROMA Logo.

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Video created by Matthew Washausen.

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Final Critique.

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Student sketches for Audio Chroma.

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USML design student, Matthew Washausen, has decided to focus his senior thesis on the connection of a music and design. By pairing GCAA Graphic Design students and local musicians, students will create responses to music's influence on creativity and design, … Continue reading →

Article written about Audio Chroma by Caitlin Mungia from the Grand Center Arts Academy.

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University of Missouri Graphic Design Student Features GCAA Artists in “Audio Chroma”

For several weeks, Matt Washausen of UMSL (University of Missouri - St. Louis) worked with high school students from Grand Center Arts Academy as part of his senior thesis. The result was: "Audio Chroma." In the following video, Washausen discusses … Continue reading →

Article and photo collection of Audio Chroma Event by Erich Vieth.

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Alongside local teens, Matthew Washausen merges music and design...

For his senior capstone project, the UMSL graphic design student has been working with the young artists on the poster series "Audio Chroma: The Power of Music and Design."

Article written by Evie Hemphill of UMSL Daily.

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Rachel Leone

Track: Hunger by Alex Dickmann

I did my design from the song Hunger by Alex Dickman. This song made me feel my own heartbeat. This also made me feel like it was halloween so I put blood splatters in the background. The lines from the heart monitor represent the heartbeat. The hearts are something I added to make the heart monitor lines look more real.

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Israel Binder

Track: Letitkillyou by Justin Huebner

I listened to the song by Chapters and my mind was taken to an island. The idea of isolation and death, yet hope and beauty. I made an anchor holding down the island showing the weight dragging it down and the chain is the lyrics “We are all drowning.” It is a dark storm with this essence of beauty that attracts people and makes them think. There’s a crow looking into the distance and his vision can be seen through the storm which shows there’s something to look forward to. The tree represents life and the moon is shining light upon it to keep it alive.

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Theo White

Track: Along the Way by Keith Coplin

I felt very relaxed while listening to the song “Along the Way,” by Keith Coplin. My poster come from ideas of stress and stress relievers, which include skating, and doing things you love to do. The fire represents stress as does the zombie and when you’re stressed you just feel worn out, tired, and dead like a zombie. So when I listen to the song I think of everything that stresses me out, the things that don’t, and put them into one piece because the song also is very chill.

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Sam Szevery

Track: Letitkillyou by Justin Huebner

The group, “Chapters,” illuminated myself with a perspective of a chilled entity. Classic beauty is the embodiment of the piece, “Letitkillyou.” The relaxing and ominous intensity that flows throughout the mind is a true euphoric experience. The collaboration of guitars, vocals and drums formed a moralized human that became the elaborate beast of the song.

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Safa Caplinger

Kali Uchis — “Perfect”

For the song “Perfect” by Kali Uchis featuring Tyler The Creator, it has a very mellow vintage kind of vibe. My poster was inspired by the music video directly and also her aesthetic in general. The music video is very unique because it has two frames playing at the same time and two different backgrounds with lots of bright pastel colors. So I used a screenshot from the video and just put my own spin on it so that still honored the overall theme of the video and her music in general.

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Rebekah Stearn

Track: Letitkillyou by Justin Huebner

My artwork is inspired by the song “Letitkillyou” by Justin. In the song the word “drowning” stuck out to me the most because it felt like the word connected well with the choice of instruments playing in the background. The song felt somewhat hopeful to me during the beginning, but towards the end it felt hopeless. I decided to show a story that connects the hopefulness and hopelessness together. The story shows someone who started from the bottom and climbs their way to the top; stomping on anything in their path. All they want is to get a breath of oxygen to survive, but as they get closer to the chance of survival, they decide that they enjoy being under water. They want the depth of the ocean to consume them. In fact, they would rather journey through the life of the sea then surviving. They then can become part of the creation.

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Oscar Nshimirimana

Track: The Feeling by Alex Kelly

My design response was inspired by the song “The Feeling” by artist Alex Kelly. This song is filled with many interesting beats that bring strong visualization to my mind. I immediately thought of dolphins, vibrant colors, high energy, and a trippy outer space vibe. I represented that imagery by integrating dolphins jumping between a set of speakers in outer space, bright curvy lines, and implied textures and patterns.

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Natalie O’Dell

Track: Letitkillyou by Justin Huebner

In the song “Letitkillyou” there is a line saying “I woke up at the bottom of the sea.” I decided to visualize that imagery. I expressed that line by showing the ocean filled with silhouettes of sea creatures. I then used a bubble-letter text for the lyrics and distorted them to create an organic feel.