Final album cover designs
Its quite hard trying to figure out on a final design from all of the experimentation... I need to decide on the right combination (or maybe create multiple different versions which discuss different things?) Where would the aura reside in that?? Would the aura be taken away by having different versions, so each one isn't as special? OR would it make each album cover more special because each one would be more original as there would be less of them? OR would either have any aura at all because they aren't the original analogue images and have been reproduced? It would discuss the aura of collecting and that perhaps there is more aura in the album covers because they are different from each other, desirable because there are less quantity of each design and as a collection they are complete and satisfactory and special.
This isn't going to be an album cover which contains a track list on the back... but an object that portrays 2 different pieces of artwork which tell their own bluegrass story. So the final piece is going to be an album of nothing of a band which doesn't exist so it won't have an album title and will be empty inside (metaphor).
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| This is the first design which came into my head. It is a very obvious portrayal of 2 different ways to show the deterioration of the band.... The front cover would be a neat portrayal of the instrumentation that is valued in bluegrass whilst the band blend into the background. The back cover portrays the shattered mess as the band split. This image specifically limited me to create a 7" vinyl cover rather than a full album cover because it was created at the size of 7" when analogue and therefore cannot be blown up any more due to pixilation. Also it has been scanned multiple times and printed off multiple times already so the quality of the image has deteriorated. |
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| This is portraying another way the band is disappearing, through opacity and digitisation. These 2 images contrast largely due to the fact that the front cover image is largely digitally edited compared to the more analogue ripped up back cover. |
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| Here this cover discusses how the process, time and practicing involved (back cover) can leave only the music and instruments of the front cover. This shows how digitisation can keep an analogue process (lino block) alive as its own image in its own right |
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| This also portrays how important process is and how I couldn't have created the linocut without the tracing paper. This links to how we couldn't have broken up if we weren't initially a band. I think the tracing paper is a striking image to show the disintegration of the band. The front cover is using bluegrass colours. |
Final Album Covers
