Metalheart is Harmony

These designs are composed of various assets (textures, images, grids, text, shapes, shadows, etc.), all of which are distorted in more than one way. The main layers comprising my take on Metalheart are as follows: a textured background, a few layers of abstract metallic shapes, grids, text, and a paper-like overlay (as an homage to the original printed publication). Each work has its own variation of these layers.

Some may have fewer layers, some may have more. Each layer is customized and distorted until I feel it has visual harmony. In some pieces, I’ve experimented with written text rather than digital fonts, because I find the contrast of handwritten text and digital imagery quite fun.

Most of my free (and not so free) time is spent listening to music. I listen to music the same way I find and enjoy art – through niche artists online – because I like hearing sounds I’ve never heard before. Music is a very important part of my artistic process. When designing these compositions, I listened to music that specifically matches the design style of Metalheart. The companion playlist linked in this book contains trip-hop, DnB, breakcore and techno music (mostly from the late 90s and early 00s). They were included because of the synergy felt between the music and the visuals that were created while listening to it.

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