What are the characteristics of the cover design of the record?

First, the concept of album cover design

As an excellent album cover design, we should clearly point out the theme and convey the basic information of the album, such as the album name or the names of singers and performers, to consumers quickly and accurately. And many other factors should be considered at the beginning of the design, such as the music style of the record, the audience of the record music, the distribution area of the record and so on. Based on these, the album cover design will be accurately positioned. Generally speaking, the album cover design of pop music often highlights the singer or album name. For non-mainstream music types that deviate from popularity, it is important to pay attention to whether the connotation of record cover design reflects the idea that music wants to express.

Second, the characteristics of album cover design

1. Small design space

Before the birth of records, movie records always occupied the mainstream of the record market. Although there are many similarities between their cover design and record cover design, the size of record cover is 12.5cm* 12cm, and the size of film record is several times larger than that of record, so the design space is much larger than that of record. On the cover of a record, not only the basic information such as the name of the record, the name of the singer and the theme map should be reflected. , but also according to the characteristics of different music types or singers to design and arrange graphics and text. Therefore, it is much more difficult to make a complete design in a small cover space to achieve the purpose of publicity than the previous film records. Therefore, we can say that the isometric design of records is a design with small space and big ideas, which requires accurate design language and means to convey and express the recorded information.

2. Strong artistry

Although album cover design is a derivative of music and has a very close relationship with commerce, many CD cover designs are full of commercial flavor, but there are still many excellent CD cover design works without commercial impetuousness. Their colleagues who pursue commercial effects also attach great importance to the combination with art.

Many successful album cover designs are marked by photos with distinctive artistic characteristics, realistic paintings with individuality and expressive abstract hand-painted graffiti. Its rich artistic expression, wonderful conception and proper composition make the album cover design a unique sketch in the field of graphic design. In addition, there are many artists who use artistic language to assist the contents of the record, which makes the cover design different in style and form and makes the record more ornamental.

The above is about the sharing of record design features. I hope it will be helpful to friends who study design. If you want to know more, please pay attention to this platform in time!