Capitol Hill Block Party: Sofia Kourtesis
By Ellery Lloyd
In this assignment I created a poster for Peruvian DJ and producer Sofia Kourtesis. I was inspired by the atmospheric quality of the artist’s music which is categorized as dance, electronic and house music. I looked at the artist’s existing visual media, such as album covers and photographs, and used this imagery to guide my color choices, as well as the overall tone of the poster. The color scheme of my poster is dark blue with vermillion accents, which are variations on the colors that I saw in Kourtesis’s existing imagery. Kourtesis’s music has a repetitive four on the floor beat that is easy to dance to, and I wanted to carry this aspect of her music into my poster using the visual repetition of the o’s in the artist’s first and last name. Overall my design is relatively minimalist with key focal points, much like the sparse but expansive production on Kourtesis’s tracks.