Thursday 9 December 2010

ALBUM COVER ART

I have constructed 5 different album cover designs in order to give my self a greater understanding of how they are made in the music industry. It was my objective to learn about the different codes and conventions used in order to create a successful album cover.

PURPOSES OF AN ALBUM COVER
-To protect the CD album itself
-To advertise the contents
-Using the artistic design to reflect the creative intention of the artist or artists
-To reflect the principles, attitudes etc of the record label
-To stand out, to be interesting and eye catching
-To boost sales, enhance profit
Attracts on retail shelves
-Enables product to be resold though different modes/NMT's
-The art becomes an icon

TYPICAL FEATURES OF AN ALBUM COVER
-Main image, most often the artist them self
-Name of the artist
AND/OR
-Title of album
- A font that symbolizes the artist
-Dramatic hair/makeup/costume
-Fairly simplistic design / clean cut

DESIGN IDEA 1
DESIGN IDEA 2
DESIGN IDEA 3
DESIGN IDEA 4
DESIGN IDEA 5

In my conclusion i feel that i have used the the typical features found on the front of album covers and applied these rules to my own work. Keeping the covers simplistic and clean cut i believe my album cover design ideas are successful in portraying different messages to their target audience.

2 comments:

  1. Are these your designs, then? You need further analysis of the process and codes/ conventions you employed.

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