As the concept of the album and the band's aesthetic having a huge vintage influence, I thought it would be a good idea to research origional 1960's album artwork and apply the factors of album artwork from that era to my final digipack design.
I used 'bing' images to research album covers (vinyls) and these are some of the images I found, I can already see aspects of the artworks that I can use and evolve to fit my intented concept and apply to my intended audience.
I really like the arty feel of this vinyl cover by 'The Mothers of Invention', at first glance, I think that it has a real similarity to the 'DFifference Clouds' filter on Photoshop, which is something I think I could experiment with on the artwork, and have already done so on the temporary 'band banner' for my blog title.
However, I don't think that the overall aesthetic design of this album cover will bode well with my ideas although Andy Warhol's artwork holds similarities to this which would work better with the concept so perhapos I should do a post on his work and how his art could influence my design choices.
Here are some more examples I found of 1960's Artwork.
Matt, surely the Velvet Underground are worth a look if you're following a Warhol style. He managed them and produced album art work for them. Early Rolling Stones are also interesting, they feature on every cover until Beggars Banquet.
ReplyDeleteAs you have a Frank Zappa cover look into Captain Beefheart's album sleeves. He was so far ahead of his time that time itself is yet to catch up with him (if you listen to any of his stuff start with the Safe as Milk album before attempting to comprehend Trout Mask Replica which beyond insane).