敲擊樂手名片
Sabrina Ma
2013年
Business card for a percussionist
Sabrina Ma
2013

Business Card
Sabrina Ma是一位長居德國的敲擊樂手。除了木片琴和鋼片琴,許多敲擊樂器都不能奏出旋律,只有聲音強弱、節奏、敲打不同部位的音色分別,因此我認為,敲擊樂與其他音樂的分別主要在於其抽象性。如果要翻譯做視覺語言的話,就像人像畫和一堆抽象線條的分別。Sabrina本人性格爽朗,因此卡片也只用文字和單色直線和弧線,暗示音樂和節奏,不作多餘裝飾。取Serif字體的優雅,卻選用當中比較硬朗乾淨的款式。字體、線條一律採用音樂家本人喜好的含蓄深紫色。

Sabrina Ma is a percussionist based in Germany. Apart from marimba and xylophone, many percussion instruments cannot produce melodies. They can only express changes in sound volumes, rhythms and different sound textures. I believe that the major difference between percussion and other musical instruments is exactly its abstract quality. This difference is similar to the difference between a portrait and a bunch of abstract lines. Sabrina is a very intelligent and brilliant musician. For her business card, I chose to use singe-colour text as well as straight and curved lines only to express the ideas of music and rhythm. Serif fonts were used for their elegance, but I also tried to select the more neat and tough ones. The only colour used was a subtle deep purple favoured by the musician.