29th and 30th Summer Course | Brazil

Official posters for the 29th and 30th editions of the International Summer Course of Brasilia’s Music School, in Brazil.

The vector based images represent the new areas that were included in the scope of 29th’s edition, acoustic bass and brass orchestra. The two figures are important composers, specially awarded on this poster. The lower face is Christopher Gluck, an opera composer, and the higher face is Heitor Villa-Lobos, *the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music (*extracted from wikipedia.org). All the small rounded symbols are musical characters.

The 30th edition came to place a mark on the posters trajectory, breaking with all the visuals created since then. Concept: the 30th edition could only happen after all the other 29 repetitions of the course, during several sequential years. Its concept is based on the repetition of the festival’s name (Curso Internacional de Verão) through all the background area, sharing a coloured gradient that represents changing, passage. The big centralized number 30 brings a strobo composition made by very thin strokes, which represents rhythm, movement and repetition.