Here are a few examples of album covers from different artists in different genres. Each have their similarities and differences in style, colour and content.
This is Amy Winehouse' "Back to Black" album cover. This was a massive album for this artist and is her most popular from her career. The album cover is very straight forward as it is simply a picture of the artist in front of a blackboard. I assume this has been done to represent the "Black" in the title. The font on the cover gives the artist and album name, this font has been created for this artist as it is unique and is not featured anywhere else.
Although this cover is simple, it manages to stand out and strongly represent the style of the artist.
This album cover is the newest Daft Punk album. This cover is again very basic and has the name of the album on the front in a signature style. This is something that we could possibly do for our artist using hand drawn images that we can scan and edit in Photoshop if we chose to go with this style. The main image is a divide of the two masks that the artists are known for wearing. This is likely why the name of the artist is not on the cover because it is instantly recognisable by the target audience of the album.
This is the "I Am Hardwell" album from Hardwell. Because I know this artist and this album I know that the space theme of the album comes from the name of the songs in it such as "Spaceman" and "Apollo". The album follows a space theme throughout so the cover has represented this well. The cover also features an image of the artist, the artist name and the album name. I like this album because it represents the music of the artist which is unique and fans of the artist will recognise this theme as a style of the artist and his music.
Finally, this is one of the most famous album covers created. This is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. This was the third best selling album of all time and this has also become one of the most famous album covers created. This is very different to the other covers I have mentioned because it has no text on the cover so there is no artist or album name advertised.
I have read about this album cover online through different forums and websites from other people's views on it. One of the views I read gave the idea that the use of the spectrum of light sown that the band is well educated, but can also be contorted to show a view of life. This idea says that life starts off straight and then everything changes (Represented by the refraction of light).
Other people think that it could possibly represent love or government. This could have been the idea of the cover all along, to get people thinking about what it could mean.
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