First CD Album Designs

In order to promote and sell my work in the music industry I would need to create a CD and packaging design to house the album. 

I wanted to create something that would tie in with the natural theme of the music video and the style of the already existing twenty-one pilots albums. You can see my research into past album designs in by clicking this link: Twenty One Pilot's Album Covers

These are my 4 CD designs. I have created them using adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator. When taking the pictures I used a tripod to ensure that each picture contained exactly the same background. The only thing to change between each image would be Jordan's location. This then meant I could edit the image and cut Jordan out of one picture and into another to give the effect he was in lots of different places in the same picture. Below you can see my 3 CD designs. 

Lost In Time - My first album cover design.

This is my first album cover design. I created it using photoshop and illustrator and mainly focused on creating a distorted image that still resembled the face of the performer. This blurring effect matches the name of twenty one pilots most recent album "Blurryface" and also matches some lyrics in the song "Stressed Out". The background of the CD design is made up of the words "Lost In Time" in a wingdings font. The effect looks good and has meaning behind it which enhances the album cover in my opinion.

Lost In Time - My second album cover design. 

The idea behind this design was to combine the idea of nature using the tree, and the idea of fun and childhood which is present in the lyrics of the song 'Stressed Out'. I used the image of Jordan hanging from the tree to reflect this element of childhood and fun because it is something that is childlike, playful and careless, all things that the lyrics suggest the performer misses.

Back in Time - My third album cover design.

This is my 3rd CD album design. It features the star of my music video, Jordan, in front of the setting sun. I wanted to use the natural landscape to match the theme of my video and also used the sun as a representation of time and how things can run out. I like the design of the CD cover because it works in layers and the type is clear and easy to read. The black and white also works well and may be something I use in my final design. 

Back in Time - My fourth album cover design.

This is the last of my album designs. Similar to my second design, this cover mainly focuses on the element of time and change. I have used the fence as a symbolic reference to being trapped and cut off. I have also chosen to have the image in black and white which also suggests time and the past. The 3 positions Jordan is in are also key to the design of this cover. From left to right he gets lower down, this symbolises how time can lessen a person or how time can reduce the levels of happiness. The change in height also represents the downwards curve in a graph showing a negative change over time.