Make a playlist based on a person in your life that is important to you. It can be a friend, a family member, just anyone you can describe. You can make playlists places like Spotify online or even burn a CD.
1. Start picking your music! Think about how the songs relate to what you're making the playlist for. The playlist can be any number of songs, but I suggest eight songs.
2. Name that playlist! This can be as simple or as abstract as you want. Jot down their name, use a specific inside joke only you two will understand, or name it after a favorite thing of theirs.
3. Make a cover for that playlist! You can make a small piece of art, edit a photo, or even use a custom meme.
4. If you're comfortable, give that playlist to the person it's based on! You can simply send them the link to your online playlist or hand them your burned CD.
Optional creation: Make a booklet for the playlist. This is especially nice if you've burned your person a CD.
1. Here's one way to make a booklet! Take two pieces of printer paper and cut it widthwise into two strips. Fold the pieces in half to make a crease. With the strips unfolded, staple the pieces together in the crease you've created. Booklet created! You can cover the staples with a strip of colored tape if you'd like. Adding more strips will let you have more pages if you've added more songs to work with. Be sure to cut the booklet down to a size that works for you!
2. Fill the booklet! The front of your booklet should be the cover you made for your playlist. The booklet's inside can be songs on individual pages with the lyrics with doodles or even notes as to why the song made you think of that person. It can also just be the song list and a description like Birdy \ -dē \: tiny human with a penchant for aesthetics also see nerd, crow personified, know-it-all. Be creative!
A Quick Bio = Nim Duran is an Art History and Film major at Portland State University, a sometimes human who watches far too much Youtube and makes far too little art.
As my friends love to remind me, I am a dorky human. In line with that, I enjoy making gifts for my friends and am cursed with far too little money and attention span. One thing I could do was make playlists that were never the same, no matter how many times I did it. So I would create these as gifts; listen to music for hours, and overthink what each song might mean to the person I would hand it off to. They always meant something, which mattered to me and meant that I was externally embarrassed when I explained it to the people I gave them to. In all, this prompt is an ode to the nervous, very much broke, romance film nerd middle school me who offered up way too much of my feelings on people in music form. Listen, I like being this dorky, and it’s a good time for everyone involved. And so all my friends get CDs and Spotify playlists with little art pieces whenever I need to give a gift, and they love me anyway.