CMJ Music Marathon

Visual Identity

From 1980 on, CMJ Music Marathon was NYC’s best way to experience live music from emerging artists and bands. We were lucky enough to design the festival identity one year before they pivoted the event away from the original week-long, multi-venue format.

Client

CMJ

Agency

Eyeball

Role

Executive Creative Director

Year

2014

CMJ needed to create a design package that would telegraph the DIY ethic of the indie music community.

Working within a very tight schedule, we conceived an approach based on the contrast between a clean, modern typeface and colorful, glitchy backgrounds crafted with a combination of analog and digital techniques. We delivered a new logo, design toolkit, and style guide that were built to empower the CMJ team to produce all collateral including posters, print ads, badges, and their new app and website.

CMJ needed to create a design package that would telegraph the DIY ethic of the indie music community.

Working within a very tight schedule, we conceived an approach based on the contrast between a clean, modern typeface and colorful, glitchy backgrounds crafted with a combination of analog and digital techniques. We delivered a new logo, design toolkit, and style guide that were built to empower the CMJ team to produce all collateral including posters, print ads, badges, and their new app and website.

CMJ needed to create a design package that would telegraph the DIY ethic of the indie music community.

Working within a very tight schedule, we conceived an approach based on the contrast between a clean, modern typeface and colorful, glitchy backgrounds crafted with a combination of analog and digital techniques. We delivered a new logo, design toolkit, and style guide that were built to empower the CMJ team to produce all collateral including posters, print ads, badges, and their new app and website.

Credits
Eyeball

Ben Spivak, Executive Producer

Alex Moulton, Executive Creative Director

Joshua Kopeika, Design Director

Credits
Eyeball

Ben Spivak, Executive Producer

Alex Moulton, Executive Creative Director

Joshua Kopeika, Design Director

Credits
Eyeball

Ben Spivak, Executive Producer

Alex Moulton, Executive Creative Director

Joshua Kopeika, Design Director