This document discusses album cover designs that inspire the author. It summarizes three album covers: [1] James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream, which features a blurred face in white and blue tones against a similarly colored background; [2] Wilco - A Ghost Is Born, which uses contrasting tones of the same color to make the band and album names stand out simply and effectively; [3] Miami Horror - Illumination, which draws the eye to a salmon pink dot in a pink-filtered desert photograph, creating a tonal color scheme that evokes isolation.

1. Digipack Inspiration
CHARLOTTE SANDALL

2. James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream
With this album I love the blurred
face and the fact that both the
background and the subject are the
same colour. Considering both
colours (white and varying blue
tones) are muted and the editing is so
simplistic this album cover would
really stand out against others.
However of course the lighting in the
photograph is key as without the dark
contrasting the light it wouldn’t have
such a great effect. For this style of
album cover I would need a model, a
studio and lighting equipment.

3. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
The simplicity of this album cover
really speaks for itself. The name of
the artist and album stand out
substantially. The contrast of two
different tones of the same colour
creates a subtle but extremely
effective cover. For this style of
cover I would need an inanimate
object that was abstract but that
still has a connection to the name
of the band or name of the album, a
backdrop so it looked smooth and
there were no lines distracting the
consumer by the abstractness of
the cover.

4. Miami Horror – Illumination
Similar to the other album covers I
am inspired by the use of tonal
colours on this cover. It really
emotes a feeling of the desert and
isolation from the consumer which
is an effect desired. The font used
to write ‘MIAMI HORROR’ is very
unique but despite this the first
thing your eye is drawn to is the
salmon pink dot in the middle of
the photograph which is set in a
mountainous desert and has a pink
colour filter to create a tonal match
to the salmon pink dot in the
middle of the cover.