CD Cover/ Evaluation
One of the projects i was looking forward to was making a CD cover for a song. The artist of the song it Tom Rush and the song was called ‘If i had a boat.’
I feel to create a cover for a song its best to research slightly in to the artist, listen to the song or know the genre. Here is a few examples.
Both of these ablums shows the the unique crazy style of the artists. Mika’s song are all about happiness, joy and experience.
In his song you can tell that music is his life as it a source of expression and its the best way to interact with fans making remembable tunes
So on the ablum you can see there is a lot going on and that expresses to me that he/his songs have so much character. the only colours used is bright cheerful colours to match him and his songs.
If you look closely you can see there is objects thats are an importance of his songs like the curvy woman in the bottom right. “Big girls are beautiful”
Tom Rush
Rush was born in Portsmouth. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after graduating from the Groton School. He majored in English literature. Many of his early recordings are versions of Lowlands Scots and folk songs. He regularly performed at the club 47 coffeehouse (now called Club Passim) in Cambridge.
This isn’t the song i have to do the cover for but its to give you an idea who and what Tom Rush is like, as i was not able to place the really song on my blog. I also emailed Tom Rush to see how he felt about the song and what was his views was then he emailed me back say he did not compose the song he was only covering it the original artist is Lyle Lovett. Over the holidays i was watching Interpreter the song was playing most of the way through the song which was very strange and i think i noticed the song more because i had been enlightened to it, thats why i recognised it.
From the song i got the feeling it was about dreaming and wishes so i wanted a soft dreamy feel but western style to match the artist.
Here is some of my sketches and first ideas i would like to develop
Then i came up with the idea of looking into the mirror like wishing for what ever they desire sometimes its windows looking out on the nothing but day dreaming. Then i thought i could faintly placeing a boat in the mirror to look like the daydream.
This design does not look as good as i would liked it of to the writing that was done on the mirror then taken a picture of with a black background to show up more in the photo. did not show up once i place the baot in the background. so in photo i thought i would erase the written area to show up more but then the whole picture did not work and looked like a child playing in photoshop not my best work i have done so i went back to the begin and went from there. I still wanted to keep my idea of it being a dream so i need to have a flowing design but it be a balanced size with the typograthy.
Here is some of my begining designs
I had loads of trouble getting the right size for the inlet of the cover so i had to keep printing out and worked out the sizes with the cover placed into the actual case. I had a few troubles but i got there in the end. I had a friend in class say there was templates on the internet to download but i was not able to so.
In this picture there is all the print outs and concepts i did to get to my final idea and size. I didn’t hit to many problem in this project apart from size and printing the cd covers out as the print at home was not installed to my laptop.
I feel i have used the perfect typography type which is from Free 1001 fonts called west test. I first of all placed the writing in the middle but it did not look right at all. so i played around with the text and resized and moved it around till i felt it look good and looked balanced on the picture. I designed and created this CD cover in Photoshop.
I have felt i have really enjoyed doing this project and would really like to do it again in my very near future. I am very proud and pleased with the finished design.
