The Colors of Dylan
Visualizing 55 years of songs
The Colors of Dylan
Visualizing 55 years of songs

The main design concept for this project was the idea of exploring the representation of different musical notes—the harmonic keys of each song—through different colors that could reveal patterns within the artist’s production over 6 decades.
Milton Glaser’s iconic 1966 Dylan poster provided an effective and fitting palette to translate each of the 12 keys into a specific hue.
The visualization is enhanced with other information telling us more about each song: its duration, its type (originals versus covers, blues, minor-key songs) as well as by the chance to rearrange them in different orders (chronological, record or key-based). I developed the project as an interactive application, also using it to generate a series of printed posters showing different patterns in Dylan’s artistic production.
The Colors of Dylan
Year: 2018
Project type: self-started
Specs: design and development of an interactive data visualization using the Processing programming language
Data: original dataset from data.world, which I processed and expanded to add data on musical keys and song types.
Code: coming soon!