Bebop Royalty
T-shirt design for KCSM public radio pledge drive
Description
Alisa Clancy – Program Director and Host of A Morning Cup of Jazz – hired me to design something celebrating four pioneers of Bebop – Charlie “Bird” Parker, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, and Dizzie Gillespie.
Client: KCSM Radio
Tools: Photoshop
Research & Inspiration
At the time I began working on this, I was traveling in D.C. and visiting all of the museums I could and was particularly inspired by Matisse’s cut-outs.
Working with Paper
Returning to the apartment exhausted after museum-ing all day, I did a little cutting out of my own…
Sketching
Next I did some sketching.
Getting Client Feedback
I created a layout to share with Alisa’s team using my paper cutouts and sketches.
Final Review
They dug it and the AD wanted a more literal representation of the victrola, so I sent them the final:
