The document discusses various album artwork designs and strategies. It analyzes the front and back covers, as well as inside sleeves, of several albums. Key points made include using artwork to represent themes in an album's music, employing disorienting images to match a genre, and including lyrics or other artwork in inside sleeves. Simplicity in the design as well as continuity across the different sections is also emphasized.

1. FURTHER analysis of album artwork:
Front covers
Back covers
Inside sleeve

2. Front cover Back cover
‘tray’ sleeve
Inside ‘front cover’ sleeve

3. FRONT & BACK ALBUM COVER
TRAYSLEEVE
Artist name & album title
Artwork:
Front cover:
The RadioHead album uses disorientating
sketches of landcapes, in the case of the
front cover the artist ‘Donwood’ uses
mountain ranges. The artwork is used to
reflect the war Kosovo in 1999.
Back cover:
The back cover illustrates another
snowscape with fires raging through fields.
The artwork is once again very
disorientating to represent the war in 1999.
Tracklist
Inside front cover sleeve:
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illustrate the landscape
images, creating
disorientation.

4. TRAY SLEEVE
This is the front cover of the sleeve. The use of red is
significant in representing anger/death/danger-all
in which helps connote the themes of the album.
The drawings are claustrophobic and demonic like,
also very cartoon-like which is ironic as many of
the issues noted in this sleeve (such as the political
reference to Tony Blair) are in fact reality, not
cartoon-like. This is significant as it indicates
sarcasm and once again implies the audience of
the albums themes and entices them into listening
to the album.
The band use the inside booklet to illustrate the lyrics of
their songs. They have made the lyrics claustrophobic
and distorted which is similar to how I want my inside
booklet to look. They have done this to help the
audience understand their genre/theme of the album.

5. TRAYSLEEVE
The use of the demonic version of Tony Blair was
very controversial after the album release as it was
criticising the current government at the time by
using the lyrics alongside Tony Blair’s face
indicating that they’re connected.
The inside back cover sleeve includes a
demonic portrait of Tony Blair surrounded by
warnings of demagoguery. This is a political
reference, the artist are illustrating there
disappointment in the government at the time
through their music.

6. WHAT WILL I DO SIMILAR?
I like the claustrophobia of the text as is creates a
distorted and eary sort of atmosphere and connotes
the genre of the band and themes of the album.
I want to do something similar here as my music
video will be very eary and has a creepy sort of
atmosphere.
I like the simplicity of the back cover. It still
contains the sort of claustrophobic atmosphere
which I intend to carry out on my own album, but
the tracklist text is kept small and simple but is still
clear.

7. Front cover Back cover
Inside sleeve Inside sleeve

8. FRONT & BACK ALBUM COVER
Album title
Album artwork
Front Cover:
The band and the artist ‘Stanley Donwood’
wanted to include a lot of colour in the
album front cover as the album is called ‘In
Artists name Rainbow’. However, he wanted to make it
more toxic and was inspired by NASA
space photos.
Back Cover:
The band created the album so that it
unfolds, unlike a normal CD box which just
Barcode opens up. This is significant as the band
wanted to keep this album simple as it was
one of the shortest albums they have
created.
Tracklist
The text has been made so it is
disorientating and disjointed
which connotes the genre of the
band and entices the audience.
Also they have used colour which
reinforces the idea of a rainbow.

9. INSIDE SLEEVE
Artwork:
The artwork of the sleeve was inspired by NASA photos.
Stanley wanted to create the idea of a rainbow but make it
more toxic looking. He did this through using the
exaggerated colours in space and digitalise it into making it
more ‘toxic’ looking.
The idea of a toxic rainbow is
illustrated best here as the
combination of colours look like a
rainbow, however by using the
‘space’ look, it has been made
more artificial and toxic looking.
The lyrics are very disjointed and
disorientating which could create confusion,
but mainly connotes the genre of the band
and the album. Also within the text there are
hints of colour to reinforce the idea of a
rainbow.

10. WHAT WILL I DO SIMILAR?
I like the simplicity of the text
on the front cover of the ‘IN
rainbows’ album. However I
want to avoid using so much
colour as I want to keep the
colours quite dark to connote
the genre of my band. Also
instead of having the toxic
rainbow sort of image in the
background I want to
possibly use an image of the
creature or the ballet dancer
from my music video and
anchor the text over the top.

11. Front cover Back cover
Inside sleeve
Inside sleeve
Inside sleeve

12. FRONT & BACK ALBUM COVER
Album name & artist
Album atrwork:
FRONT COVER:
The front cover is kept very simple-
illustrating a set of decaying flowers.
The simple photography of this image
is effective yet ironic as this album
consists of the best hits but illustrates a
Tracklist decaying flower. A the music started
in 1988, the flowers could represent
(as they aren’t dead yet) how the
Record label band has lasted over so many years.
BACK COVER:
The back cover is kept very
Contributors simple, using a simple layout and two
constant colours-black and white.
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13. The sort of street style look INSIDE SLEEVE
appeals to a wider audience-
by publishing this image they
are widening there brand
reach.
ALBUM ARTWORK:
The band has simply used photographs of
their own artwork over the years. Each
piece of artwork has been used as
inspiration for the bands music over the
years. This is simple but yet effective, it is a
selling point to the audience as the album
also releases artwork which has inspired
them or which they have created which is
something keen fans would be interested i.
Furthermore as it is a ‘best of’ album,
consisting of music they have created over
they years, by using images they have
created over the years, they are
connecting the idea of a long lasting band
together through the artwork and the
music.
Colours are kept quite
neutral, but sometimes
consists of tie dye colours
which remind me of the
80’s-which is when the
band formed.

14. WHAT WILL I DO SIMILAR?
I like the idea of using your own artwork to illustrate your music. As I am
creative and draw and paint a lot I would like similarly do so on my
album sleeve. I have sketched and storyboarded my music video so I
could use some of them images, but also I can develop this by painting
more images which I can take photos of and use for an inside sleeve.

15. Front cover Back cover
Album artwork
Inside sleeve

16. FRONT & BACK ALBUM COVER
Artist
Unique selling point
Album title Album Artwork:
The colours are kept quite natural
(browns/caramels/mustard/grey)
The colours, image and style are all
used to help identify the brand. The
image is placed at the bottom left
hand side of the album, so then your
Tracklist eyes immediately retract to the title
and artist name.
The album is almost fairytale
like, indicating a childlike essence-
Contributors, record however the ‘parental advisory’
label and website. sticker suggests otherwise.
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17. INSIDE ARTWORK
The artwork is very chaotic and
disorientating, creating a similar
atmosphere to the CD covers-a
claustrophobic and disorientated
atmosphere, reinforcing the genre
This is an image of cupid, the God of the artists music.
of desire, affection and erotic love.
Album Artwork:
The album uses Greek mythology and chaotic artwork.
The idea of the inside sleeve being a ‘storybook’
reinforces the idea of a child-like essence, however the
front of the album says that it is not suitable for children,
the significant use of BLACK reinforces that.
I like the way that the CD unfolds to
reveal an inside booklet attached to the
case, which when opened looks like a
story book. I think that this is effective and
entices the reader into buying the album.
Also this once again connotes the child
like essence when in fact it is not for
children.

18. INSIDE SLEEVE
This is an image of cupid, the God of desire, affection and erotic
love. Even though the storybook inside the sleeve seems childlike, the
nudity suggests otherwise. The significant use of BLACK also connotes
the idea that the CD isn’t suitable for children.
The artists lyrics are illustrated like a storyboard. The text is
quite ‘fairytale like’ which all connote the ideas of
childhood. However the meaning of the lyrics and the
images are quite absurd and unusual, such as the dancing
pigs, pig drinking alcohol and the floating knife. This all
creates an unrealistic nature, which indicates the genre of
music is unusual.

19. WHAT WILL I DO SIMILAR?
I like the unusual-ness of the artwork. The contrast between the
innocent, childlike artwork (fairytale like lettering/storybook) and the
unusual photography of drinking pigs and dancing pigs appeal to me
because it is unusual-which is what my imagination manifests in;
weirdness.