The Brief Creating CD covers for music artists ‘Distant’ To create a CD cover that will help launch Distant’s launch album ‘US’ Background After completing their first project creating their logo and business cards. I have been asked to create their new upcomign album US. They have requested for the album cover to be done via a paint brush vector. Deliverables - CD Covers CONCEPT FOR THE BRIEF The concept for this brief is paint, using items that could relate to paint such as oil paints, paint brushes’, paint and many more to help experiment with.
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Research Simplistic / Iconic album covers Distant are looking for a simplified album cover with paint over ‘us’. Looking at iconic album covers that are simple and iconic using symbols,icons and typography. Pink Floyd was an iconic figure with his album ‘The Wall’ through his design with a custom iconic black typeface on a simple, white coloured brick background. For the other designs, they all share a simple geometric coloured shapes.
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Research Electronic Album Covers Distant are an electronic band. These are iconic electronic artists. Pendulum show how each song has its own original artwork. For the album, they placed all the artwork together to create the front cover of In Silico. Odesza are another house/electronic artist that uses geometric shapes with visuals as background to create the full experience of their music.
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Initial Ideas Initial sketches Using spray paint, paint, oil crayons, water, chalk to experiment with a paint themed brief. I used these spray paints to continue forward.
Daniel Carter - OUGD603 - Extended Practice
Devolopment Making an iconic name Using spray paints and crayon oils to create developments used within designs as shown on the right. Starting with 5 developed ideas, ready to give to the client a choice of preference.
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Further Devolopment Making the cover Using crayon oils use within the development stage to further create designs for the front and back of the album cover. I will give credit to Paayal Makdani who helped me come up with our idea; Distant have both been working seperataly in Leeds (Kyle Rolph) and London (Danny Bristow) this is represented in the i (individual) in us. The us represents them being united through their music and ‘US’(Danny and Kyle-Distant).
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Final Outcome Final album cover Here are the final designs of the album covers designed for Distants new upcoming album US. The final design consists of the letter i worked in with the album name ‘us’. This is to represent Distants story of how they first started as individuals and came together to create distant. Distant being two men from a ‘Distant’ country Spain coming to the UK to pursue their dreams and ambitions. Final outcomes of the CD album covers.
Daniel Carter - OUGD603 - Extended Practice