Sunday

Amy Winehouse reading Hamlet

My first thoughts when tackling Amy Winehouse were to break the type up or use a or a script typeface. I experimented and both designs didn’t work.
After researching even more I came to the conclusion that the main thing about Amy is her two sided personality. I watched interviews and music videos on youtube and this helped me a lot with the final design. 
As she had an 2 sided personality which has been brought on by her addictions I decided to make my design with two sides. One to reflect her dark side the other to reflect her normal side.
The black side reflects her darker more destructive side and by communicating this I have made the background black and the typeface Arno pro light italic display. Using an italic type I think reflects more emotion.
The opposite side is meant to reflect her normal side so it is clean white and I chose the very common Times New Roman because of this.
Why have I put some sentences on the black and some on the white? Well it is because each sentence reflects the state of her two sided personality. On the black side the sentences are those that a dramatic description of committing suicide. The other side of sentences are those that are her normal conscience of contemplating suicide “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,”. The reasoning mind and not the extreme depressing thoughts that she has on the other side.

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