3 CD Cover Remakes

The CD cover to the left is the original and I have recreated this by using some graph paper, which I then downloaded a typeface that was similar to the artist's name on the correct CD cover. I then added a colour over it and tried to edit it the same, but struggled with the white boarder over the letters. I really like how simple it is and how different is, because not many CD covers I have seen has used graph paper as a background. The codes and conventions used in this cover is the name of the artist. It doesn't however follow the convention of having the artist's photo on the cover. From this we could use something very simplistic, yet it would work effectively.

   Here I have made a design of a Van Halen CD. I found the baby angel with the cigarette and I used a similar text to create the artist's name. I then coloured this a red tinge, however I found it difficult to get the gradient with the shade of black running through the text. I then added the roman numerals and duplicated it so it was the same on both sides of the name title. For this album it follows the convention of having the artist's name and possibly the title of the CD; however again, it doesn't feature the image of the artist. Instead it has a picture that doesn't particularly have any relevance. This could suggest that for our CD cover we could use pictures that doesn't hold any relevance.

To the left is my remake of the Led Zeppelin CD. I found this quite difficult to remake because I couldn't find an exact match of the apartment blocks that they used to create their CD cover. I used a text overlay and a similar text to make the artist's name blend into the apartments. I also changed the brightness and contrast and added a sepia filter to match with the sepia tone used in the original CD. I then added the different lettering on the windows and similar positions to where they were on the original. I found this the most difficult because I couldn't find the exact position for them.  For this album, they included the title of the CD and the artist linking to the codes and conventions for a CD cover. However, again they went against using the artist's face for the front cover.