Cover Art

I have been told to display 15 examples of cover art that I like in my folio for Visual Communication. It's been hell for me in this subject at school, finally, 4 weeks into term 2 we have an assignment that we can actually display some creativity. We are to design a CD album cover for any band, I'm tossing up between Vampire Weekend's Horchata and OK GO's Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (just using the band name and album name etc). Here are my chosen covers:

i love the liquid in his collar bone. it is all so advanced for his time.. 

which i admire

the shades have really inspired me in this one, 

i might do something with glasses in my design

the triangles are what attracted me to listen to Yacht's music in the first place, 

triangles have a secret i reckon

i bet this is what movie stars puke up in the toilet, glitter

super nintendo, cats, toy gun in the underpants. sweet

you can almost make any polaroid an album cover, simplicity is the best

like i said, simplicty. and the use of line is just so eye-catching

i like this cos i could just paint something, fold it in half so it 

becomes symmetrical, let it dry and scan it. and there's my cover

it's kind of as if there are little safes in walls all over, 

and secrets and lies are locked up in them

i don't have much to say about this. i just dig it a whole lot. beautiful

i reckon this is just cool, it is balanced. makes me think of 

the future and space and questions

without the red and blue whatever-you-wanna-call-its, this would

be boring. but its unusual and smart. like they're connected

reminds me of star wars, our old ugly olive green couch and 

hide and seek. never seen the snow

i love the deflated balloon, how could you not. it is so simple

and it suits the actual album really perfectly. great album

i like this because i love water colour. it's not done much on

cover art so i like that it is indavidual, i want to paint like this

makes me think about the mighty boosh, new age beliefs, 

outer space, greek gods and of course, magic

I've never really thought about cover art as inspiration for anything but this assignment has really

taught me something. Inspiration can be found anywhere and these images have definitely inspired and given me ideas for other things like fashion and art photography. 

Always try to find something good you can get out of whatever you are given, 

that's another little something that I've learnt.

Oh, and don't put things off!!! I'm telling that to myself 'cos that's what I'm actually doing right now, should be annotating these in my folio rather than on my blog. See!? haha, I always sabotage myself. I will somehow find something that will distract me from my work, and instead I'm talking about it on my blog, so so silly I am. 

I have got to discipline myself better.