Conventions of cd album covers
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The document discusses conventions for CD album covers. It analyzes two album covers - one by Linkin Park that uses a minimalist design with few elements and dull colors, and one by Muse that stands out with many bright colors and shapes. Both covers have small, modest text for the band name and album title despite the commercial success of the albums.
Conventions of cd album covers
- 1. Conventions of CD album covers
- 2. Minimalism is used: cover is Linkin Park Living Things very bare, showing only what Song names/ contents is needed/getting straight to Barcode the point Main Main image takes up image/content most of the cd cover image Record label icons CD title and name of the band (top of the cover) is small, modern and very Copyright & address modest; not in-your-face at all of record label
- 3. Album covers such as this one are minimalistic. Its quite surprising that even though they are quite simple and use dull colours, they are quite well liked. This may be due to going well with the genre of the band (bands with serious songs e.g. about love and life) use these darker colours, in contrast to bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers who have quite a fun and adventurous sound and use bright colours and shapes for their cd albums. The fonts used are also in a dull colour (black, grey, white) which goes along with the rest of the theme of the album cover. The size of the fonts are small too, assuming youd recognize what band made the album by looking at its picture on the front cover.
- 4. The bands name is the biggest text on the front Muse The Resistance album cover. Placed at Copyright & Record company the top left corner address + record label icons Main image takes up Barcode most of the Track listings Title of the cover, brightly Image of the band, blurred album, again small coloured and bold (distorted like the genre of and modest the album)
- 5. This album cover is the opposite of the one analysed before; it uses lots of different colours and shapes to catch the audiences attention, yet the majority of the songs on the album have a serious theme (e.g. politics, apocalyptic events). The font colours are quite dark on this album cover too and the size/fonts are small and modest.
- 6. These are two contrasting examples: the first is minimalistic, using bland colours and photo of a single person (with some effects going on) whereas the second uses bright colours to draw peoples attention. Both were very successful commercially, indicating that this colour scheme/layout worked (to some extent at least). On both covers, the album titles and band names are in quite small font. This is probably because they are two well known bands and dont need to advertise their name as much to gain attention.