Album cover art

When about to create my final design ideas i decided to and carefully go through the images I had, to see which ones would work and how. I drew up some rough ideas on paper and then used the images to adapt these.

This was the first idea for my album cover. I chose this as it breaks the conventions of a normal album cover. The colouring is not something you would normally, especially amongst indie rock bands. The positioning of the artists is also unusual, it does not show any distinguish between the lead singer and the other band members.

Rubber ducks..

As our album cover is called 'Playing with Tides' and our band name 'Canute' we wanted to use something to represent this, and coming up with the rubber ducks idea allowed us to be more 'playful' and 'bubbly' rather than being serious all the time. Using this juxtaposition comes up frquently amongst indi-rock bands as no one wants to be seen as to ;serious'. It allows a bit of fun to be added to our cover image.

Album cover ideas

On March 15th we all went out as a group to take some photos for are album art. We came up with some very good ideas and ended up with some brilliant shots. here are a few:

We wanted to take a large range of images to allow ourselves to be more flexible with our final cover designs. With a large aray of photos we can try out many different ideas.

Post Modern album covers

The Clash - London Calling

The album cover has all the typical conventions you would expect to see from any album cover for example, the artist name, album name and an image of the artist. The image has a very 'rock', 'rebellious' look about it due to the youthful, frustrating stance of the artist. He is positioned centrally with a very strong 'pose'. The blurring of the image suggests motion and the black and white suggests an edgy, serious, sencerty sense of conviction. Then in juxtaposition to this, we have the album name. In a colourful, bold font it suggests a happy, comic feel. It grabs the audience's attention and was made to hold focus suggesting a playful, bubbly, fun side to the serious bellion.

This album was infact a hommage to Elvis Presley's very first album...

This uses the same serious black and white image yet playful font and facial expression, this is how we know it is not a parody. The Clash have used the same codes and conventions to build an album cover almost exactly the same as Elvis Presley's, taking it seriously.

Post Modernism

All the people mentioned above are closely recognised with modernism creating pieces of work that will in years to come still be recognised.
Post Modernism is a movement away from modernism and they want the audience to be conciously aware that they are watching a text. There are two ways of doing this:

• Technical - camera focusing
• Intertextuality - illusions

The following three things all make you aware of other texts (allusions).


Intertextuality - making reference to another text. For example, in Lady Gaga's video for telephone they make reference to Kill Bill.


Parody - mocking the original text e.g Scary Movie


Hommage - celebrating the original text