The document discusses different types of album cover art including: 1) Portrait album covers feature the artist or band looking out, helping to construct their public image. 2) Black and white covers stand out on shelves compared to other designs and can convey a rebellious feel. 3) Covers using bold text can also stand out if the text is large and distinctive, though it works better with a background image. 4) Photo manipulation covers are less common and work best if the colors and images are eye-catching, though some may be too blended. 5) Illustrative covers feature drawings commissioned by the artist to express something significant to them or cleverly represent an album

1. Types of Album Cover Artwork
By Martin Ward

2. Type – Portrait
Portrait Album’s, for example,
Playing in the Shadows by
Example, a portrait album will
be the artist or band looking
out from the album, this will not
only sell albums, but will also
become star construction
creating an image for example.
The name of the artist is in a
bright yellow box drawing the
attention to the artists name.

3. Type – Black and White
Black and White Album Covers, Kasabian and
Foo Fighter’s Albums.
Black and white is a very simple album design it
would not normally contain another colour but
in One by One – Foo Fighters, the albums
name is in red.
Black and White albums, are bold and stand out
on the shelves compared to other album
designs, in this case the images give off a
rebellious feel with the heart and masked
person.

4. Type - Text
Using an album with text is simple
but can be quite effective, for
example The Script’s Science & Faith
looks very good and would clearly
stand out on the shelf, another
album is by Vanilla Fudge’s Rock &
Roll, which doesn’t look very good,
but with the large bold red text it
would clearly stand out.
Having a background on the text is
clearly more effective and with the
Script’s unique font it is a very eye
catching and would be an ideal
option for ourselves to apply.

5. Type – Photo Manipulation
Photo Manipulation is not a very common album cover, these two
albums by Queen and Kings of Leon, compared to Queens album the
Kings of Leon isn’t as eye catching this could possibly be because of
the colour and being blended with an Eagle.

6. Type – Illustrative
Paolo Nutini and Ja Rule’s albums,
are both Illustrative album artwork,
these are drawings by the artist or
either commissioned by him. These
two are very different Illustrative
artwork, the Ja Rule one, looks like
something that he expressing that he
has grown up around and things that
are significant to him. The other is
Sunny Side Up which is cleverly
shown with the eggs on the images
plate.

7. Martin Ward