Joe Henderson
Day 54
#36 – Joe Henderson (1937–2001). American jazz tenor saxophonist. Albums include: Page One (1963), Inner Urge (1965) and So Near, So Far – Musings for Miles (1993).
I wrote out his name and then started looking through photographs. I noticed the two ‘o’s’ in his name and these reminded me of Henderson’s glasses. I started working with this. To balance out the type I needed to add something. I looked at other album names and then thought the simplest thing would be to say ‘Sax by’ which fitted neatly. I explored different typefaces until I came across Eurostile where the shape of the ‘O’s looked like his glasses. To make them stand out I used grey for the other type. And when going through his albums I noticed he recorded an album called ‘Black is the Colour’. I thought this would be a nice link with the glasses. The white background seemed a little boring so the bright yellow really made it sing.
1.5 hours
Early layout idea
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘Inner Urge.’