Album Cover Influences...

This cover is really interesting as it is edgy, cool the fact that it is black and white adds an indie, rocker effect. The bright pink is also very confident of the band to use as the color itself is quite girly but they have used it as an effect of the bands genre to represent the edginess the band gives off. As you can see the image is repeated and they have used a tile format that also emphasizes the indieness and arty style of the band. The band are wearing stylish arty clothing that also create a sense of edginess. This is one of our favourite ideas as it is similar to the way we imagined our band cover to look like.

As you can see the image above is of the cure's album cover. We wanted to incorporated the styles of the influences of the band as well as following the conventions of current similar bands. The bright colors and childish drawings are fun and add to the edgy effect that we are trying to emphasize. We are developing ideas from this, possibly using a colorful background, maybe draw around them. As we are on a low budget, this cover is a perfect idea.

The font is smudged which creates a messy idea of the band, the overall drawing is not neat at all and this also emphasizes the style of music. The fact that the image has no relevance to the band itself is interesting, we felt that we wanted to concentrate on the band itself but we have taken in the same idea of the colorful background.

posted by dara