D3 LP Package + Animation

I decided to choose the album continuum by John Mayer for my vinyl project. I wanted to emphasize the idea of continuing by having continuous lines throughout the vinyl. I tied in John Mayer by using A silhouette illustration of his 1990s Squier Stratocaster guitar. I wanted my color palette to vibrate and to keep in theme with the idea of continuum and the album itself. I used a script font to resemble a signature, then I chose a condensed San Serif font: Nobel, for the word continuum and centered it with the neck of the guitar.

This is my album cover redesign for Tame Impala's Currents album. The front and back are both scans I did and by turning the color on and moving the piece of paper around, I was able to have these bright colors, and wavy look which feel relevant to Tame Impala's music and style. I continued with these colors throughout the album and wanted to make them prominent on the inside. I also chose to make the chorus parts for each song a color to better highlight it and also incorporate more color.

This is my album cover redesign for Tame Impala's Currents album. The front and back are both scans I did and by turning the color on and moving the piece of paper around, I was able to have these bright colors, and wavy look which feel relevant to Tame Impala's music and style. I continued with these colors throughout the album and wanted to make them prominent on the inside. I also chose to make the chorus parts for each song a color to better highlight it and also incorporate more color.

I chose Swimming by Mac Miller for the vinyl project. I was inspired by the title of the album to use swimming pool photography. On the front cover I mixed a tall, condensed type with swimming pool lanes to take up both the front and back cover of the album. I continued this theme to the inside spread by using pool tile throughout the lyrics. For the animated lyrics, I chose the opening chorus of the song “Ladders”. I connected my animation to my album by incorporating the blue and orange color palette, verticality, and fonts from the vinyl.

I chose Swimming by Mac Miller for the vinyl project. I was inspired by the title of the album to use swimming pool photography. On the front cover I mixed a tall, condensed type with swimming pool lanes to take up both the front and back cover of the album. I continued this theme to the inside spread by using pool tile throughout the lyrics. For the animated lyrics, I chose the opening chorus of the song “Ladders”. I connected my animation to my album by incorporating the blue and orange color palette, verticality, and fonts from the vinyl.

My LP is the album Swimming by Mac Miller, a self-reflection album with deep feelings. This album has a feeling of treading water, I wanted to capture this. In my cover the album name is treading water almost just drifting along with the ocean. The inside also reflects this with each song name floating inside the words of that song. My design is simple but expresses this feeling of treading through life.

My LP is the album Swimming by Mac Miller, a self-reflection album with deep feelings. This album has a feeling of treading water, I wanted to capture this. In my cover the album name is treading water almost just drifting along with the ocean. The inside also reflects this with each song name floating inside the words of that song. My design is simple but expresses this feeling of treading through life.

The final project for this course was to redesign an existing album and create an animated lyric video for one song on the album. I chose to do Social Cues by Cage The Elephant which was released in 2019. The name Social Cues is what inspired my design for this album because I took that to mean that a person is socially awkward and gets nervous when they interact with other people. I wanted to recreate that feeling so I illustrated the image of having butterflies in your stomach and the beating of a heart.

The final project for this course was to redesign an existing album and create an animated lyric video for one song on the album. I chose to do Social Cues by Cage The Elephant which was released in 2019. The name Social Cues is what inspired my design for this album because I took that to mean that a person is socially awkward and gets nervous when they interact with other people. I wanted to recreate that feeling so I illustrated the image of having butterflies in your stomach and the beating of a heart.

LP package designed for Santigold's "Master of my Make Believe" album.

LP package designed for Santigold's "Master of my Make Believe" album.

The album I chose to redesign is In Sickness and In Flames by The Front Bottoms. This 2020 release gets its name from the events that have occurred this year and it’s songs range from angry and fast, to sad and slow, to happy and upbeat. The design for my record primarily comes from the genre of the music which is folk punk as well as how the music makes me feel. That being said, I went about this design through the use of digital illustration to create all of the visuals on my album. As for the typography I used various forms of Gill Sans all across the album. I wanted the text to be simple so that the illustration could be the star of the project.

A record album redesign of "Staying At Tamara's" by George Ezra. The album was written while on a trip to Barcelona, Spain where Ezra met many new friends and shared great experiences. For me personally, this album & its songs connote a lot of 'summer vibes' and is all about enjoying life to fullest. My goal in the album cover design was to capture the essence of this Barcelona trip.

A record album redesign of "Staying At Tamara's" by George Ezra. The album was written while on a trip to Barcelona, Spain where Ezra met many new friends and shared great experiences. For me personally, this album & its songs connote a lot of 'summer vibes' and is all about enjoying life to fullest. My goal in the album cover design was to capture the essence of this Barcelona trip.

Bad Bunny has played a large role in the Hispanic-American community, especially this year. This Album "Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana" represents going against the standards. I think he is speaking about standards in the American Public towards Hispanic-Americans, he uses a mix of Classic Latin Trap and new-coming Latin Trap that creates this 20 song album.

Bad Bunny has played a large role in the Hispanic-American community, especially this year. This Album "Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana" represents going against the standards. I think he is speaking about standards in the American Public towards Hispanic-Americans, he uses a mix of Classic Latin Trap and new-coming Latin Trap that creates this 20 song album.

For the vinyl project we were told to design a vinyl cover for an album of our choice. I picked Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Logic. In this album he raps about the rough childhood that he went through and all the hate that is said to him for being famous. So for my cover I wanted to make the red writing look ugly to resemble all the hate and depression that Logic has gone though. Also because my album had sixteen songs I created a double album that has four sides. When you open the vinyl once you will see symbols that resemble peace, love, and positivity. Those symbols are for the message that Logic tries to spread with his music.

I have to admit I was ecstatic when introduced to this project since not only do I collect vinyl, but also my dream career path would be to use my graphic design knowledge in the music industry. The album I chose was Dream Police by Cheap Trick, my favorite band. With this, I created a focus on the eccentric sweaters and jackets the guitarist of the band is often pictured in. I created a jean jacket and photographed myself wearing it for the album cover. The A-side and B-side stickers on the vinyl itself had the theme carried onto it with the background of it being a circular patch. Other elements on the packaging included close-ups of denim, 1970s pins, and patches to all better incorporate the theme.

The Vinyl Project forced the class' consideration of hierarchy when creating a work of art; in this case, a redesign of an album of our choice (in vinyl form). The album I chose to recreate was Rush's "Moving Pictures" album. I was originally going to do Van Halen's "1984" album since Eddie Van Halen had passed away at the time of the start of the project, but I overthought how hard it would have been to come up with school appropriate imagery. I chose "Moving Pictures" because of my infatuation with Rush and the late drummer Neil Peart (RIP). "Moving Pictures" also gave me more variety since the album is very complex in meaning and full of lyrical mastery. I chose to use the color palette from the original album (red and black) and chose to make the front and back cover a continuous picture frame, but realizing it too late, I should have made the covers more centered. The illusion is supposed to be if someone were to open the outside cover upwards, the front and back covers would make a picture frame with the spine as an exception to the illusion. The inside was the same principal, but the colors were swapped. I chose the grid floating for the front to mimic movement; homage to the "moving" in "Moving Pictures". The sleeves were color blocks with a static effect for aesthetics. The labels are mere reflections of one another with colors swapped.

The Vinyl Project forced the class' consideration of hierarchy when creating a work of art; in this case, a redesign of an album of our choice (in vinyl form). The album I chose to recreate was Rush's "Moving Pictures" album. I was originally going to do Van Halen's "1984" album since Eddie Van Halen had passed away at the time of the start of the project, but I overthought how hard it would have been to come up with school appropriate imagery. I chose "Moving Pictures" because of my infatuation with Rush and the late drummer Neil Peart (RIP). "Moving Pictures" also gave me more variety since the album is very complex in meaning and full of lyrical mastery. I chose to use the color palette from the original album (red and black) and chose to make the front and back cover a continuous picture frame, but realizing it too late, I should have made the covers more centered. The illusion is supposed to be if someone were to open the outside cover upwards, the front and back covers would make a picture frame with the spine as an exception to the illusion. The inside was the same principal, but the colors were swapped. I chose the grid floating for the front to mimic movement; homage to the "moving" in "Moving Pictures". The sleeves were color blocks with a static effect for aesthetics. The labels are mere reflections of one another with colors swapped.

For our last typography project, we were directed to select a music album/band of our choice and recreate a vinyl for that album. I chose Superbloom by the band Ra Ra Riot. With multiple playful songs, the rock band has a recognizable aesthetic seen on my vinyl cover. I used multiple photos of flowers that I pixelated for the cover and inside of my vinyl. I also made use of an arcade-esqe font, for the song title headings and for the name of the band on the cover. This project definitely challenged me but the task of designing an album cover was a fun challenge.