The document summarizes and describes the cover art designs of three albums: 1) Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" album cover features a cartoon drawing of a woman in a ballerina costume holding wine with no text, pushing boundaries of acceptability. The back cover presents the track listing in an unusual framed portrait style. 2) Oasis' "Definitely Maybe" album depicts the whole band in a living room setting, indicating their indie rock style. Band name and title are prominently displayed at the top in different fonts against a black background. 3) Justin Timberlake's "Justified" shows the artist alone in a desert backdrop, suggesting feelings of loneliness on the emotional

1. Knaye West My Beuatiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
‘My Beuatiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ is the fifth studio album by American Rapper Kanye West. The
album cover is simples and contains an image which is a cartoon drawing of a women in a black
ballerinas costume hold a glass of red wine. This image is on a plain background of red with the
parent advisory warning in the bottom left corner. The cover art doesn’t really suggest that this is a
hip hop album as it breaking the general stereotype of the upfront nature of the genre.The main
thing is the noticeable absent of the cover art is that there is no album title and artist name present.
The aim of the artist is to make the album that iconic that the fans will notice it is a Kanye West
album without actually saying. The actual product has the same style of cartoon drawing but is more
disturbing has there is a black man the represents West and a creature that has elf like ears and
sharp teeth and blood around the mouth. Furthermore the creature has wing like a unicorn while sat
astride the man with a bottle of alcohol in his hand with a devilish grin. This pushes the boundaries
of what is acceptable and change people’s view of the genre of music and what it’s about. The back
cover of the album conventional has the track listing on the back but the way it is presented

2. iscreative and unusual. The albums title and artist name creates a portrait picture in an old
fashioned frame in a san serif font. The tracks on the album are in the middle of the frame also in a
san serif font. The shows that the artist wants his music to be the only thing focused on as in like its
art like Picasso would produce. The colour scheme is consistent with the cover art with a red
background. The text on the track list is a gold colour which furthermore makes the album title and
artist name to look like a canvas frame
Oasis Definitely Maybe

3. The cover art for the Oasis Deffinatly Maybe has the whole band present in a living room all
in different stances. One of the band members is lay on the floor horizontally and on of the
in the middle of the room with what looks like a glass of red wine to the right of the band
member on the floor. The band member on the couch is holding a acoustic guitar which
indicates that the band are a indie rock and roll band. The band member with the guitar in
his hand has a another empty wine glass, ashtray and cigerrette lighter. The conventional
band name and album title are on the cover art. They are place on the top of the ablum
cover. The title is in a sans serif font while the band name is in a bold serif font with the text
in white which is on a black background. The cd is a plian metallaic grey design which is a
sign of the band arent really fused about making the cd look appeling as is not that
important. The band name is on the cd with the album title and track listing. The track listing
is in a balck serif font while the bands name is the same as the cover art as it the bands logo.
The back cover of the digipack is convetional again with the trackilisting beging present in
the bottom left hand corner of the back cover. The mise en scene of the shot is the same as
the front as the band are all in the same living room but the members have all move
positons. The lead singer of the band has got his hand underneath anworld that is hanging
down from the wall. This suggests that they believe that they have the world in their hands.
The barcode is on the left right hand side of the back cover out of the way from so attention
remains on the band.

4. Justin Timberlake Justified
The album cover art is dimly lit maybe which creates a little bit of darkness in the songs on the
album. The artist is present is a white male in a black leather jacket in a profile shot stance but his
head is turned towards the camera.The mise en scene of the cover art puts the artist in the middle
of a hilly desert while clouds are rolling in over the horizion. This could possible show that the artist
is currently feeling alone and his music in this album is going to discus the matter. The artist also
very conventional as the album title are put on the album cover. The name of the artist is in a serif
font all in capitals in a white while the album name is in a light blue colour also in a serif font and all
in capitals. The top of the t in justified is has been elongated to underline the artist name that is

5. placed on to of it. The cd is black with which has the tracking listing of the album in blue which is
reapeted numourus times in the shape of the artist intials. The tracki listing is seperated by the
album title which is in a white bold serif font. The back cover of the digipack is again has the same
mise en scene but there is an addition of a water pipe which to me suggest that the ablum is
emotional. The track listing is down the right hand side of the back cover and is looks like it is the
same ruggedness of the landscape that is around. The barcode is in the bottom left hand corner of
the of the back cover again out of the way of the main goings on.