Album Cover Design (Hand drawn)

Album Cover Design

Brief: This is the initial design I drafted in order to illustrate the ideas I had for our CD cover.

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These images are all close ups of the band members using a wide lens (otherwise known as fish-eye). I feel this lene type will be effective as it is unusual and quirky (similarly to our artists) and is inline with the theme of the album, which is optics and refraction, as the imagines look like they are from the perspective of a convex lens such as a key-hole viewer.

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This is the front cover of our album, which features all of our artists, two of which are upside down. This is because our theme is light refraction and optics (thus the album name Optik) and the line through the middle with artists on each side illustrates this theme as it seems like a broken mirror of some sort. The band name and album name is also present as is the convention of album covers. The mispelling of the word 'Optik' demonstrates the band's indie and almost rebellious nature. This is because mispellings are usually associating with younger generations who 'do not play by the rules' so to speak.

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This is the back of the album which features all the tracks of the album, as per convention. This side continues the theme of optics and refraction as it has two mirror lines in the frame.

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This is a close up of a camera lens which again follows the theme of optics.