Album Artwork: Comparing Our First Drafts and Making Decisions To Plan Our Final Design

After giving each other feedback on our first drafts, we looked more into comparing them, seeing what was similar what was different and what we wanted to transfer to our final design.

My design:

Eden's design:

Eddie's design:

Eden and I shared a lot of similarities, both using a close up of the artist on the cover and then having her also appear on the back. Although Eddie chose to have her on the front, he didn't include her on the back, instead, he simply included the track list with a background of neon red lights. Eden and I were both intrigued with how well his linked to the music video, however, as we're promoting a new artist, we have to create an accurate star image that would be carried through not only the rest of the campaign but for future products. For our final design, we will include Yasmin, our artist, on both front and back of the album. 

Eden and I also both incorporated the hands, an ongoing motive that will be exploited in the artist's and dancer's movement; Eden used the hands on the inner left panel whereas I used them on the CD panel. We liked that in my design there were so many hands filling the entire panel with limited negative space. However, we weren't sure on whether we to incorporate them into the inner left or CD panel. 

When looking at Eden and Eddie's design for the CD panel, I came to the conclusion that the hands would be best placed on the inner left because I really liked the minimalism of their designs. I think that after having the artist on the front and back cover, it would be nice to have one more simple panel to contrast the business of the others. 

Eddie's design for the CD panel was particularly interesting as it linked to his design for the front cover. Before developing our designs, I showed Eddie and Eden an Instagram profile of a fashion designer named Katrina Knizikevičiūtė Bajoras who has a unique style which I thought about incorporating. The lines on the artist's face would add a quirkiness and something stylistically different from every other 'indie pop' artist whilst still appealing to the genre conventions. 

The one decision that still needs to be made is what font to use. We all agreed that we want it to seem like handwriting creating a more personal feeling between the artist and her music as well as the artist and her audience.