Tagged: coverdesigners

After graduation i started to pay attention for making desing in a higher level, while i was student it was just a hobby as well. Due to my work I could get to know about typography and Desktop Publishing (DTP). That way I could gain many years of professional experiences during designing visualizations, flyers or various type of other printed forms. I collected dozen of references which has given me further success. My artistic skills are taking shape in a photography, design and also in amateur filmshooting. [...]

Born and raised in São Paulo, Andre is constantly interested in the good, true and beautiful. He tries to come up with new ideas to the benefit of other people and want to follow a path that is unique, putting a great deal of energy into activities, especially the ones he does for fun and pleasure, tending to benefit and unite others when working with good people and great ideas he believes in. He worked for years in one of the best Radios of Brazil which is actually also located in Rome, creating advertisements in magazines, web and [...]

Album art is important - it represents you and can become iconic. How many times have you seen Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon cover? However, quality graphic design can be expensive. On Music Think Tank , Brian Hazard writes about his experience with 99designs which offers more affordable custom designs by launching a contest. “Quality graphic design is expensive . I paid $500 just to license the cover image for my last album , plus $600 [...]

Singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn and her label, Blue Note Records have joined forces with Creative Allies to launch an album cover design contest for Ahn's forthcoming sophomore album When You Grow Up . The winner of the contest will receive $1,000, a credit in the album packaging, a Priscilla Ahn prize pack and will help out the creative director in planning the rest of the album's layout. Pretty cool! The deadline for submissions is midnight [...]

PRISCILLA AHN ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES WITH DEVOTCHKA& CREATIVE ALLIES ALBUM COVER DESIGN CONTESTAHN’S NEW ETHAN JOHNS PRODUCED ALBUM WHEN YOU GROW UPTO BE RELEASED MAY 3 ON BLUE NOTE, FEATURES SONGWRITINGCOLLABORATIONS WITH SIA FURLER, INARA GEORGE, & ELENI MANDELLSinger-songwriter Priscilla Ahn and Blue Note Records have partnered with Creative Allies to launch an album cover design contest for Ahn

Hard Format has a nice tagline. "Reaching for the sublime in music design". As music promotion continues to become a entirely digital medium, I think its possible motion will work its way into "cover design". In the meantime its nice to look back to the analog, physical, and tactile area of graphic design in the [...]