1. CD Cover Assignment
Instructions

2. Outline
• To try to put some of the things we have
learned into practice, you will be asked to
design an album cover for a fictional artist.

3. Album Covers

4. Band name
Album title
Band
Image

5. Consider
• Music Genre
• Title Font
• Target Audience
• Artist Connotations (through
props, locations, costume)

6. But Mostly Consider...
• This assignment is not about becoming
experts of album covers but of challenging
and testing yourself in terms of what you are
able to do.

7. A Few Inspirations?

12. And Ones To Avoid

14. A Few Rules
• Your album cover must include at least one
original photo/scanned image (you may
combine this with found images, but better if
you do not)
• You must draw out a design of the album that
you try to stick to- this will force you to try to
challenge yourself on Photoshop

15. Finally...
• Keep Things Practical: if you can’t get images
for Monday then take a picture of yourself and
test out what you want to do.
• This is about practice (this entails some
experimenting and things going wrong)

16. Photographs
• Take multiple shots from different angles
(always do one close-up)
• Think about framing & lighting- don’t overly
rely on Photoshop
• If you are going to select the ‘artist’ then
consider the background and things like hair