ICT Lesson - 3rd November 2014

Planning My Album Cover

When making an album cover, it's vital to know that images can be just as iconic as the music. Also, at first glance, it's important to catch the eye of the consumer. With album covers which are truly memorable, which will always be associated with the artist(s) years to come - as with Pink Floyd and the dispersion of light through a prism - it takes a spark of genius to conjure. The first impression of an album cover comes before the first note of the first song and will most likely affect how the audience views the music. It needs to please, on first glance, and when looking in greater detail; a hard thing to do. More than an album cover, and more than just an image to what's really inside. In these circumstances, books are judged by their covers (and rightly so), so the designer must make it count. Whether it's the colours, image itself, filters, positioning, subject etc., etc., aesthetics is important. This is what we need to keep in mind when planning our album covers and what they'll look like.