The document discusses various album covers and their design elements. It analyzes aspects like fonts, colors, layouts, imagery and how they relate to the music genre and style. Simple designs that don't distract from the core artwork are preferred. Symbolism and consistency between the album and CD covers is also important to effectively represent the music.

1. Small album title which
Album front cover
allows for the viewer to (Pendulum - in Silico)
be able to focus more The idea of having a
on the design layout of circular maze with various
the cover. The font used colour tones and designs
is solid but very basic so helps to give it a slightly
that it doesn’t draw the sci-fi technology
viewers attention away reference which relates to
from the artwork. what sort of music the
album consists of.
The surrounding design is
The use of colour for the meant to represent sperm
surrounding of the shape cells penetrating the egg cell
in the centre helps to (Hence the infant in the
separate the colours of centre of the picture) But it
the central shape and has been laid out so that it
make it stand out much represents technology and
more. appears mechanic.
The original artwork has also been
used for the single track albums which
have led off from the main album.
(Shown on the left are three of the
main single track albums made from
Pendulum in Silico)

2. The way in which all the members are The CD has the main Linkin park
standing with dark clothing in a dark Album and CD designs symbol covering the front along
environment makes the cover seem (Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight) with the same colour scheme as
much more masculine rather than the album itself, ranging from
having a vast use of colours and white to a series of grey’s and
seeming more feminine. finally to blacks. Also the design of
having the album songs all laid
around the outside of the CD is an
interesting feature.
The layout for the album cover is very basic, with
no serious usage of images apart from the almost
silhouette like shots of the members. Apart from
that the majority of the album design is mainly
grey scale which relates to the type of music
having a slightly dark feeling to it.

3. Album front, back and CD
cover (Pendulum - Immersion)
The idea of having a A very simple font has been used The way in which the main
majority of the ocean as this helps to make the artwork band members (Rob Swire,
life having a slight neon become more effective and stand Gareth McGrillen, Kevin
like feature helps to out more rather than it being Sawka and Paul Harding)
relate to the fact that really extreme and therefore are seen slowly reaching
the genre of music is drawing the viewers attention out towards the two
techno/electronic style. away from the main album people in the centre of the
artwork. album.
The CD for the album follows the
same design features as the album
cover itself. Following on from the
usage of bubbles, water and neon
lighting to give the feeling of
electronic styled music as well as
relate to the genre of music.

4. Album and CD cover (Sonata Artica – Ecliptica)
The CD itself resembles
the design of the cover
such as the main band
symbol in the centre and
in the name as well as the
same font and art work
being used for the cover.
The main band symbol shown
here is used for a number of
design parts for the cover of The title is designed so that
both the CD and the album the first and last letters of the For the specific album
cover. Its also designed so that it name (First being “S” and the name a simple font is used
appears to be two “A”s which last being “A”) are an almost but with an added shadow
helps make sense of the band identical mirror image of the effects and reflection like
name and allows the symbol to same design so that it seems style which helps to make
fit in more easily. much more creative and it seem like it relates to
relates to the main band the album art work much
symbol in the centre of the more easily.
title and the cover.

5. A very solid font is used for the
album title and band name. The
album name itself (Hybrid
Theory) is displayed in a much
smaller font towards the
bottom of the cover next to the
main picture.
The CD itself is a lot more
informal. The CD cover consists of
the original artwork that was
used for the album cover itself,
the name of the album and the
songs that are available on this
CD. The way in which much of the
background of the cover consists The artwork designed for the CD cover has
of street art and graffiti on a a slight street art or graffiti feature to it .
grey wall suggests that the music The way in which the dark red and white
on this CD has a heavy metal or picture stands out from the grey
alternative rock and relates to background helps the viewer to focus on
the genre of music as well. this as the main image. The fact that the
figure in the centre is a dark red helps to
make it stand out amongst the seemingly
black and white background.

6. Album front cover
(Scatman – Scatman’s world)
A very basic name for the album
yet it has a slightly outstanding
font like design to it consisting of
a pale blue colour with a ripped
texture to it.
The background is very
bland with no extreme
usage of artwork or
colour's. The only things
which stand out
amongst the Album
cover are the peculiar
design of the
The idea of having the microphone in microphone wearing a
the centre with a hat on gives you an hat and the album
idea that the album has music which name.
really relates specifically to Scatman’s
work and style. It’s the only piece of
artwork that can be found which
ensures that the cover is not covered
with pictures and therefore draws the
viewer’s attention away from it too
much.