Big Boi's first solo album cover is extremely simple but reflects him as an artist, representing a suitable style with the sunglasses and the gold watch and blending it with the suave black hat and jacket. The plain white background works well with the style of font and the layout of the font used, which also reflects the artist with the stylist font, the tint of diamond shine with the purple along with the album title 'Sir Lucious Left Foot'.
Blink's most iconic and most recognised album 'Take Off Your Pants And Jacket is possibly the simplest album cover i have ever seen, yet one of my all time favourites. Maybe it is simply because of the band, or maybe it is because of the beautiful simplicity and the concept used. Even trying to re-create this would be a huge risk, and it would take an artist with the stature of Blink 182 to ever pull it off.
One of the oldest album covers I have evaluated, and also strangely one of the most futuristic and stylish. Metallica's 1986 album 'Master Of Puppets' saw one of the first album covers of its time with such a simple design with the bands emblem on strings which links in well with the album title. Simple designs like this really grab my attention personally, with the bright colours standing out on the simple but effective background.
Arctic Monkeys' latest album 'Humbug' saw a new outlook on the band altogether, it was the first cover which featured any members of the band, their music had a completely different sound to it and the band had changed their image completely. I must confess, personally i think this album is their worst by far! But i really like the album cover because of how effectively they have used an aged effect on the photo, and how it looks like a photo you would take just messing around, or casually. As seen on the picture below, the back of the album saw a parchment coloured background with just the band name and track list. Something about it really attracts me to it, and re-creating something like this is what i am aiming for.
Released in 2007, Foo Fighters 'Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace' saw another simple album art with a parchment/aged paper background with an abstract image in the foreground, with no relevance to the band and no real link to the album. The half missile, half lightbulb object is what grabs my attention, the sheer originality of it is what makes the cover so successful in my eyes, along with it again being so simple! The font next to the image looks polished but is still simplistic, which compliments the image by not complicating anything.
Foals debut album 'Antidotes' is yet another simple deign and idea used effectively with relatively simple editing. The yet again parchment coloured backdrop works well as a solid colour with the sketched like portrait sitting in front of it with a colourful array in the portraits mouth attracting attention to that area. To re-create something like this as a cover would not be too challenging and i believe it would be very effective.
Kanye West's '808s & Heartbreak' album cover is my favourite of any other I have seen. After a tough year in his life after losing his mother to a shock heart attack as a reaction to surgery Kanye had treated her to, and losing his long time partner, he turned his music into a completely new sound as a sort of statement directed at his ex, with heart felt lyrics and him using his singing voice rather than rapping. The artwork also gives a statement, a deflated balloon possibly reflective how he felt. Also the colour of the balloon, red signifying love and it being in the shape of heart. The ripped heart signifies his pain, and the hands could be the happenings tearing him up.
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