First off, we looked at the type of music we most enjoy and prefer listening to, rap and grime. Professor Green and Kano are two of our favourite artists so we found their albums. Their covers are very simple as the picture is just of the artists in front of a plain background. This is so they stand out more to the buyer who wnats to buy their album. They have also used different colours to show the artists name and the name of the album which we thought was effective and shows a bit of colour. We would want to use this sort of text for our own album.
Next, we looked at The xx's album called 'xx'. This is an extremly simple cover, only using a black background and a white cross dead centre in the middle. Even though it is very simple, it is intriguing at the same time as the cover gives nothing about the album away, everything is in the music. However, it could show to some listeners that their music is basic and boring.
The album artwork for Bloc Party's 'Intamicy' basically links to the name of the album as it is showing a couple being intimate. The intriguing thing behind this however is that it is basically just the lips and the two people are unknown.
This is another album cover that we found interesting. It is Plan B 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks'. We liked this cover alot as it is of the artist sitting alone in the middle looking quite sad in the darkness whilst having above him the album name in lights like it is in a cinema or theatre. We liked this because it shows the album to be a showcase which appears to be very exciting and we are not sure whether Plan B is sad to be there.
Of your research for the CD covers only one of them has a figure photographed at middle distance, in such a manner that you use for your own cover; but your commentary on the Plan B cover makes no mention of this obvious link. As such it is difficult to see how this research feeds into the type of cover you eventually make.
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