Design Principles // What is a line? - Funk graphics reasearch

For my funk publication about influential funk drummers from the birth of funk in the 60's to present day.

I want to explore what style of graphics represents funk the best, I want to see how funk artists promote themselves to see if there is any themes that continue throughout the funk genre.

This should help me with the visuals for the publications, I do have a vision of what style I want but this research should help influence certain aspects of the design, such as typeface, layout and colour.

James Brown

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic

Top left Poster designed by Heidi Skinner

Tower of Power

Maceo Parker

Misc 

There appears to be a few general themes that I notice throughout the posters,. Big bold type, often shaped text , a lot of round edges.

Bold bright colours, they definitely stand out and don't hold back when using colour or colour contrasts.

They are all quite busy designs, I don't think this is necessarily a theme of funk graphics, but instead because of the amount of information needed to be fit onto each poster.