Design Research Portfolio-CD COVER

Danger Doom CD is a simple CD cover with the usage of vector images to create the final out come. I love the way it has been made, making it simple and yet effective with the technique of using bright eye catching colours, this is a type of contrast that makes it appealing towards the audience. I like how the text is bold and the "D" in each word is of a different colour. This has been done to give another meaning to the word "DANGER DOOM" this makes the label unique. I may consider this technique to add more character towards the title.



MUSE CD is a brilliant cover, the reason why i think this is due to the technique of using smoke to create a image of a man and a woman. The usage of colour goes with the album theme because the music itself is colourful and upbeat. In some sense this is a form of symbolisation. A negative point i have to make about this CD idea is that the maker of the cover should have experimented more with
the Logo or CD name, rather than placing it inside a purple box. Other than that i feel like this idea sends off a good sign of what the music may be like. This is a technique id like to use, to be able to symbolise what the CD cover is about towards the audience.

This one of my favourite mix tapes by The Weeknd, The reason why i have chosen this cover is due to the pop art feel. I feel like this is an original  idea and creates a form of art. The disadvantage towards this technique is that it gives an old feel towards the cover and not a modern feel. The colours used are dull and could be more eye catching. When creating my own CD cover i will ensure that i avoid making my cover dull and instead more bright, modern and eye catching.




When it came to creating my own CD cover it was mainly down to a choice of random selection, from this we had to create a cover that contained an image, title and a quote of some sort. This was a test because i have never really created something out of random choice, this proved to be a challenge. I created the CD cover on Photoshop and slowly developed t from there. (As shown below).

As this was a task the depended on randomness, i was able to grab my Album title from; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.

For the quote i had to go to; 

http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

Finally, for the Album cover i had to use; 

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days.

This was the outcome of the technique of randomisation.

Development of the CD cover and final outcome:

With the CD cover idea i believe it was a fun and interesting task, however i am not to sure about the concept due to the idea of work from random images and so on. In some way i look at this first task as an exercise helping me generate more ideas making me think out side the box. If i had the choice of choosing my own images, i would have done it a lot more differently which something id be use to, so in some way doing it like this makes me open up to different concepts.