Thursday, April 1, 2010

Collect - Information Architecture

For this project I have chosen to use my collection of over 200 CD's (these things are going to be like vinyl in 10 years) and more specifically, classic and influential hip-hop albums.

From The Sugarhill Gang...


to Snoop Doggy Dogg,


from Old School...


to New School,



from G-Funk...



to East Coast Renaissance.



There are many possible ways to categorize and organize, by location, time of release, sub-genre, or even by eras in hip hop. I am doing my best to figure out the different eras of hip hop as we speak, it is a little bit difficult as these are mainly opinions of people and there's really no set of rules when it comes to categorization. I will reach out to a few critics and see what they have to say about my idea of different eras after I have finished my research and made the list.