CD Cover; Design

http://emullendermedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/cd-cover-final-design.html

For my final design I used an image of the two characters from the music video, the guy and second girl, walking down a city street together. I wanted to have a close link between my music video and CD cover and thought using the characters would be an effective way of doing so. My original image was quite bland and grey so I tried placing different colour gradients as a underneath and merging them together through the luminosity setting. I found the best colours that worked together were blue and green as it created a cold, urban and quite grungey tone which is what I was after. I used this same effect with all the images, the school clock on the inside cover, the guitar on the back and the band and city pictures of the insert and found it worked well, making the entire album cover and insert consistent. The font I used, Helvetica, is very simple but works well with the images and with the indie pop genre, I used a forward slash to enhance the indie style of it. I think the back cover, is the best composed, as I had a good space to work with next to the image of the guitar and the song titles fitted in well. For the insert, I wanted to use an image of the band, as many CD covers do, to create a personal insight for the audience, discovering who the band are and how they play. Using the instruments in the image also allowed me to reference the music, which should be the focus of many indie-pop/folk bands. The image on the inside cover, of the clock references the music video, using a school clock as seen in the school room setting of the music video where the students are sitting an exam. This again, is made more effective by the colour tone as without it, the image was quite boring.