This document provides instructions for a CD cover design assignment. Students are asked to design an album cover for a fictional artist considering the music genre, title font, target audience, and artist connotations conveyed through props, locations, and costumes. The assignment aims to challenge students' skills and test what they are able to do rather than make them experts in album cover design. Students must include at least one original photo/image and draw out a design to stick to. They are advised to take multiple photos from different angles with consideration for framing and lighting.

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