Artwork?

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Mish said:
That's not a design, it's just a photograph ;) . That EP was released in a copy of 5, and it's the only thing I've done for my old band graphics wise. Besides, define professional.

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IMO one of the best CD-art I've ever seen. Far cry from good or professional? Personally I couldn't care less
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I like that too... I wouldn't say it's not good though. It has good composition, it fits the music on the inside.... it has a very stylized look, really.
 
TerraMortim said:
I like that too... I wouldn't say it's not good though. It has good composition, it fits the music on the inside.... it has a very stylized look, really.
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The inlays of the booklet are just amazing. And I agree with your previous post as well - that was my when point posting that cover art. It's so simplistic that anyone could re-draw it, but it has a very strong original image to it. Still, from a 'professional' point of view, Alex had been bashed for his 'slappy' technique which IMO is irrelevant. Take this one for example -

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Mish said:
That's not a design, it's just a photograph ;) . That EP was released in a copy of 5, and it's the only thing I've done for my old band graphics wise. Besides, define professional.

TheUsed-InLoveDeath2004.jpg


IMO one of the best CD-art I've ever seen. Far cry from good or professional? Personally I couldn't care less
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I wouldn't say this isn't professional at all.. In fact quite the opposite. It has a clear theme and style. It's just a little more on the artistic side of design (the side I live on too hehe)

just because there's a sketchy picture or something that's not clean and simple doesn't mean it's not professional. I very much like that album art (it's a shame that it was wasted on such a terrible band though :eek: )

A professional design is something that communicates and does it's job. This band was going for a dark somewhat twisted marketing stategy and this album art fits with that flawlessly so therefor it does it's job.
 
I used to try and do it myself, but I'm not a great designer.. So for professionalism, I now go through pro designers, for 1, saves me time, 2 pro image.
 
If you're going DIY sketch a very light union jack to take up the space (crossed diagonals & a pair of perpendiculars) then AVOID putting anything significant on the lines and vertices.
Mind you breaking that rules gets some great results too BUT the rule forces you away from the obvious & hence cliched.
Even moving the plan off centre creates its own tension.
BUT BEWARE the fool who sticks to the rule 100% of the time.
He's probably a bloke who can't take a joke and will commit a nursery crime.
 
I talked this whole thread over with the band. We've deciced to go with a black cover, with black text. We trust the design, and sent it to production without even looking at it. I am sure the CD's will be perfect.
 
BenignVanilla said:
I talked this whole thread over with the band. We've deciced to go with a black cover, with black text. We trust the design, and sent it to production without even looking at it. I am sure the CD's will be perfect.
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I have a vinyl copy of Mayhem "Pure fucking armageddon" that has that colour scheme... one solide piece of soft black construction paper folded in half with ever so slightly darker black print on it... it's cool, actually...even if it does sound like a cow giving birth recorded with a dictaphone with the input turned as loud as it can go. Very DIY... the sides lovingly titled "side FUCK" and "side OFF" are etched very sloppily into the area around the blank label, thrown into a thin clear plastic sleeve (just over the substance of a plastic shopping bag) to keep it from all falling apart... hehehehe It's one of my favourite vinyl records because of that, in reality (it's like...spinal tap...) Go for it.
 
here's a very rough of the cover I'm working on. I'm calling it "The Garden of Human Stupidity". keep in mind...Since this is mostly based off of pre-existing illustrations from vintage advertising, I'm not done re-colouring and shading a good number of the characters to make them fit within the space... but would love feedback on the conceptual ideas at this point as the characters are pretty much all there, I think. I'll post the back cover, and booklet artwork as well as a more completely finished front cover as they are ready.

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Terra,
Very garden of earthly Delights or other Bosch bits.
I like it.
I wouldn't re colour it though. I like the distinction between shades and tones.
It's a bit like restoration - the point isn't to make the object look brand new but whole.
The tankard raising Liberty is a nice touch! though the dangling Venus and Cross dressing house husband are cute too.
It's interesting that post Kampuchea's Killing Fields and the atrocities in Bosnia the images in the bottom right don't quite have the same impact as they once did. says a lot about how desensitized I've become.
 
Very Sgt. Pepper. I like it.


So what about the CD itself? What do you guys do on the CD? I was thinking of going with lightscribe.
 
rayc said:
Terra,
Very garden of earthly Delights or other Bosch bits.
I like it.
I wouldn't re colour it though. I like the distinction between shades and tones.
It's a bit like restoration - the point isn't to make the object look brand new but whole.
The tankard raising Liberty is a nice touch! though the dangling Venus and Cross dressing house husband are cute too.
It's interesting that post Kampuchea's Killing Fields and the atrocities in Bosnia the images in the bottom right don't quite have the same impact as they once did. says a lot about how desensitized I've become.
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ah great! That's good to know, because that's what inspired me to do it. :) I wanted to take the idea of a bosch painting, but instead of the subject being heaven vs. hell... stupidity vs. anything good, intelligent, and so on.

Okay, I'll keep that in consideration...I think I might do a bit more of the shading though, as when they were just flat it was kind of headache to look at. Oh yes...the people being hung on the gallows are going to have their heads replaced with the band members' heads, and I was thinking of making us slightly brighter and ever so slightly illuminated compared with the rest of the psychotic mess haha.


(on a completely side note, notice two of the heads in the pile- George Carlin and Bill Hicks hehehe)
 
BenignVanilla said:
Very Sgt. Pepper. I like it.


So what about the CD itself? What do you guys do on the CD? I was thinking of going with lightscribe.
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and yes, sgt. pepper...was also influenced by that...I was thinking kind of like what if the sgt. pepper cover mixed with Bosch's "Garden of Wordly Delight", and with the theme of stupidity vs. good.

Here...let me post what I have so far. I'm going to start filling this space with characters and shit as well... I kind of want this to be as if you zoomed WAY out..this is what you would see. There are definitely some places for sea and air creatures to be invented...woohoo!

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on the topic of artwork just wanted to let everyone know that if you need cd art, posters, merch designs or a website pm me. I started a new graphic design company. (originally it was going to be solely a website design firm but now we're expanding into a full service design and marketing studio)

Anyways we're new so we need to build up our portfolio. Although I can't say we'll do anything for free (as per my big speal earlier) I will say that for a while we'll be doing stuff for very very reasonable rates.

check out our site www.heelodesign.com (it's being re-invented as we speak just like the company is being re-invented)

I started a myspace account too www.myspace.com/heelodesign


I'll let everyone know when the new site is up.. it's going to be much more impressive than our current one
 
I'm almost done our album art..


it's turning out soo well.. I'll post it soon
 
here's the inside cover. (3 panels that fold out)

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All the little captions (including the red headers) are song lyrics. I'm thinking this is turning out ok.. still not 100% done yet though
 
i like to use my photography

terra mortim, i like the looks of your design
 
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