The album artwork for Nothing Personal by All Time Low depicts a playful, colorful scene underneath a formal background. This juxtaposition represents the fun personalities underneath people's serious exteriors. The mixture of bright colors also symbolizes the different personalities within the band. Handwritten text and a childlike doodle style suggest someone casually drew on paper that was later covered up but remains partially exposed.
2. 9.0 Live - Slipknot
First live album by American
heavy metal band Slipknot.
We picked to look at this CD cover
Recorded during a 2004– because it was something that we
2005 world tour which could possibly achieve and we all
promoted their third liked the band Slipknot so we
studio album Vol. 3: (The decided to look at this CD cover.
Subliminal Verses).
I f you look carefully you can see When looking at the image, you can see the many hands in it could
the faint image of the slipknot resemble how crowded and chaotic a mosh pit is. The band being a
pentagon symbol/logo, which is heavy metal band, mosh pits are common to this style of music.
a way to recognise the band
3. Minutes to Midnight – Linkin Park
Third studio album by The type of font used also suits the
Linkin Park. genre of the music and band.
Released on May 14, The positioning of
2007 by Warner Bros. the band members
Records. and the lack of
colour show the
Shows a change in the album as a more
group’s musical dark and masculine
direction. cover, which if you
were looking at it in
Marks the beginning of a stereotypical way,
divergence from their fits it’s target
signature nu metal audience of male
sound. listeners.
The name Minutes to
Midnight takes its title We chose this album cover because we are
from the Doomsday doing a song by Linkin Park so it would be The Linkin Park symbol can be found
Clock, which a symbolic logically to look at there style of album on the CD, with the same title as on
reference of a clock face. covers. Again it’s the whole band in black the cover. Round the edges of the
and white with the background fading out. It symbol you can see the names of the
is a very basic picture but fits the cover songs played on the CD in order.
ideally.
4. Hybrid Theory – Linkin Park
The first album by Linkin
Park.
Released on
October 24, 2000
by Warner Bros.
Records.
The CD uses the
same artwork as
on the cover,
which a lot of
albums do.
We looked at this album as
well as Minutes to Midnight The artwork on the album is similar to street
because Hybrid Theory is the Once again , the font is art. The main picture stands out from the
album in which our song has used to give off a background as it’s the only colourful thing
been taken from. masculine type feeling on it. If you look closely, you can see wings
(sold strong font). It’s behind the image of the army guy,
Just like Minutes to Midnight, the songs also quit similar to army symbolising something much deeper than
on the album are listed on the the CD. type font, which is a what’s to the eye, as this masculine man is
masculine occupation. being linked so something such as insects
which are small and weak.
5. Folie à Deux – Fall Out Boy
The fifth studio album by Fall The title is French. It’s a rare
Out Boy. psychiatric syndrome, where
the symptoms of a
delusional belief are
Recorded from July to transmitted from one
September 2008 at The Pass individual to another, which
Studios and The Casita explains the image.
in Hollywood, California.
The image is an example
Released on December 16, 2008 of Folie à Deux. The
human believes he is a
bear, and the bear
Painted by artist Luke Chueh believes it’s a human.
Folie à Deux = A
madness shared by two.
The similarity in font between
the title and the bands name,
shows a hint of the theme
being quite personal and a The simplicity of the title font juxtaposes with
state of their own hidden the idea of the artwork, bringing back the
madness. theme of madness.
6. Into the Aether - Anavae
First album released by
Anavae A & E – someone holds
the letter’s A & E which
Released 01 May 2012 are the first and last
letters of the bands name,
showing its’ the bands
An aether is initials.
‘personification of the
sky or upper air
breathed by the
Olympians; son of
Erebus and night or of The idea of air and sky is
Chaos and darkness.’ created by the smoke
and the themes are allowing us to actually
shown in the art work see ‘air’
The darkness is
The guy standing represented by the fact
in the centre of the its’ a dark image, even
image could though the lighting is
represent the quite bright, there is still
Olympian; son of la dark feel to it.
Erebus It seems that a lot of album artwork with hidden
meanings makes more sense when you look into the
name of the title of the album.
7. Nothing Personal – All Time Low
The third album by All Time The playful colourful
Low. imagery juxtaposes the
formal background. You
Released through Hopeless can see that the fun
Records on July 7, 2009. exciting park of the
artwork was underneath
The birds flying away the wallpaper background.
from the inside of the This could represent that
albums’ artistic part underneath people’s
represents the serious personality, lies a
imagination running fun interesting person into
free and wild like a bird. a lot of different things.
The create part of the cover
is quite childlike. It’s on
The mixture of writing paper people us in
different colours could school and you can see a
represent the number pencil. It’s as though
of different someone doodle on a piece
personalities within the of paper, and someone else
band, similar to the has covered up with
various different The band uses the same type of something more
images used. font for their band name on every appropriate, but it’s been
album cover. exposed against slightly.
