As I thoroughly enjoyed Secret 7 last year, this was a good opportunity to undertake for one of the smaller briefs. Design for the music industries is something that really appeals to me and something I want to explore for the future. In addition interpreting the song to create a design is very open, therefore there are a lot of possibilities to explore. After initial ideas and from my research, I immediately knew I wanted a psychedelic style cover for this LP. I started by making textures using Youtube tutorials as I didn't know how to go about making a psychedelic pattern. I then went on to using a photograph from the internet and tracing the pattern of the lines and layering it up to create a really nice pattern full of colour. This really got the psychedelic affect that I was after. I tried and tested a few ideas to do with someone holding their fingers in their ears to connote 'The less I know the better' but these I found were unsuccessful. I then tired ideas with hearts to connote love, and made it distorted to represented his broken heart. I felt this worked well as amongst the psychedelic trance, lies a broken heart to represent the line 'so goodbye.'
OUGD503 Studio Brief 1 Emma Nicholls 257322
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Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better
This brief allowed me to explore more concept driven designs as well as psychedelic designs which I really love. I feel I interpreted the song and my research really helped to inform my designs. Psychedelic and distorted effects is a skill I've always wanted to explore and this brief had a lot of scope for this. I also found a new way of working as my designs were made using an app, which was new and refreshing. I believe this brief has allowed me to learn new skills as well undergoing problem solving in terms of interpreting the song to create a concept, all of which will really help me in my future practice.
OUGD503 Studio Brief 1 Emma Nicholls 257322
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