Analysing album covers
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The document discusses and analyzes several album covers, summarizing: 1) The Strokes' "Angles" cover uses bright abstract colors and shapes with no relevance to the band, catching attention on shelves. 2) Best Coast's "Crazy For You" uses a bright, summery image filling the cover with happy feeling, and relates elements to the band name through a map and coastline. 3) Arctic Monkeys' "Favourite Worst Nightmare" initially shows a house with lights inside but reveals psychedelic wall patterns, though risks not standing out with its lack of color.
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2) Inside covers sometimes include additional photos or images.
3) Spines usually contain the band/artist name, album title, and a number for manufacturing identification.
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- Digipaks open like books to house a CD replicating the album art inside, along with additional compartments and a booklet.
- Booklets often include song lyrics, band photos, and thank you notes from the artists. Some include removable posters.
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The document provides examples of album artwork from various vinyl and CD releases. It summarizes the key elements and themes represented in the artwork for albums by U2, John Lennon, The Beatles, Sky Sailing, Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, and The Script. Common aspects discussed include the use of photography, themes, fonts, color schemes, and layouts that tie the different elements of the artwork together and represent the music and band in an appealing way to audiences.
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1) Eminem's "Curtain Call" uses a stage motif with curtains and roses to represent the theme of show business. The roses motif is extended throughout the design.
2) Biffy Clyro's "Opposites" uses an abstract tree motif to represent nature. The front and back covers use opposing tree images to contrast themes.
3) Mika's "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" uses bright colors and crowded design to represent glam rock and new wave genres from the 1970s. The disc features an alien face image continuing the alternative theme.
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The document discusses design plans for a digipak and magazine advertisement for an indie/acoustic artist's album. Key points include:
- The digipak should feel personal to fans while also being interesting visually and not overly complex. Reference digipaks are analyzed.
- Sketches and trials incorporate natural imagery, sketchy fonts, and artwork to achieve the desired aesthetic.
- Research on typical indie/acoustic designs informs the process, aiming for a balance between simplicity and visual interest.
- The magazine ad will feature the same image as the digipak for recognition, with additional information to attract passive readers.
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The document analyzes and summarizes several music album digipacks in order to get ideas for creating their own digipack for a music video. It discusses digipacks from Two Door Cinema Club albums "Game Show" and another, noting their minimal dark designs and use of neon colors and fonts. It also summarizes the digipacks of Paolo Nutini albums "These Streets" and "Sunny Side Up", highlighting their bold colors and inclusion of artist photos and drawings. Further, it provides brief summaries of the Mark Ronson album "Uptown Special" and Foals album "I Cry When I Laugh".
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The document analyzes and summarizes the design elements of digipak album covers from four different artists: Red Hot Chili Peppers, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, and Emineh. For each album cover, key design elements like colors, images, text styles and placements are described. Comparisons are made between how the designs fit or diverge from conventions within their respective genres of rock or rap music. Overall impressions and opinions on what design aspects work well or could be improved are also provided.
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Part two
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- 4. On the other hand, I have noticed that all of the images used on the cover are squares or cubes which could have relevance to the name of the album because each of the shapes have clear angles.
- 5. The Strokes have chosen to not include an image of themselves on the cover which after doing some research appears to be quite conventional for the genre of indie / indie- rock. I think this idea works better because you can experiment more and don’t have to stick to one image.
- 8. At first it does appear to be really random, but if you look inside the text that the bands name has been written in, a map has filled it and what looks like a coast in America. As well as this, the image is set on a beach. Both of these ideas match the bands name ‘Best Coast’.
- 9. The back of the casing continues with the coast setting so it shows some continuity and it’s not all disjuncture.
- 10. It looks like the text has been written in Courier New and is perfectly left aligned which isn’t a very common font to write in so once again it gives the band a uniqueness about them. I like the way the track listing has been set out so I think I might use the idea for my final DigiPak.
- 14. The only negative about this album cover is I fear the lack of colour used will cause it to not stand out on shelves in shops when placed next to other albums that use eye catching features like bright colours, unique images and big text.
- 15. A good feature used on this cover is the bands logo. Using such an unusual font in the colour yellow on a black background does help you immediately see who’s album it is.
- 16. Having the image taken in what appears to be a council estate area is very unconventional for a mainstream pop band, hip hop stars or other genres- so with the originality of where the picture is taken comes the idea of a unique band which are normally classed under ‘indie’.
- 19. I really like the choice of image they have used because it matches with the name of the album. The word ‘nightmare’ has connotations of big scare creatures that are intimidating and dark colours. I then think they have cleverly changed this to ‘favourite worst’ nightmare by using bright colours to make the creatures appear less scary. It shows a good contrast.
- 20. The second idea I like about this is if you didn’t see the front cover and looked straight inside you’d never know the album belonged to the Arctic Monkeys because their name and images of the band aren’t used. I have found this is quite conventional for this genre.