cover art thoughts
Feb. 27th, 2008 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unclechristoSaw artwork for Bridget's album - not to my taste really - very generically new age "Celtic Woman" and not very "Bridget" - It doesn't look bad - . But I stay out of artwork issues with the new age label these days. I used to get stuck in and pitch my corner, but now I realise that I don't really have a feeling for their core market and what that buyer thinks looks cool.
My taste comes out of growing up listening to lots of German jazz label ECM and recently electronic labels like Hypnos with their moody and minimal "arty" covers and the singer songwriter world where you actually want things to look quirkily different. New age covers need to look cosy and be very descriptive of concept or title with no ambiguity. I tend to like an air of mystery in cover art - well in art too.
Everyone has a different cover art background and experience. As a kid Caravanserai era Santana covers were the coolest. The Vizier thinks cover art begins and ends with Roger Dean's Yes covers - whereas I always thought they looked a bit naff.
Plus I'm not a visual artist or designer really - I enjoy having ago but it's not my trade - My fave cd cover I've designed is probably Continuum - Neptune. and was quite pleased with Chocolate Bossa and the new Planet Scanners CD.
Some fave cover art out there
looking at my CD collection - sizable - it;'s surprising how few CDs cover art reall send me,
My taste comes out of growing up listening to lots of German jazz label ECM and recently electronic labels like Hypnos with their moody and minimal "arty" covers and the singer songwriter world where you actually want things to look quirkily different. New age covers need to look cosy and be very descriptive of concept or title with no ambiguity. I tend to like an air of mystery in cover art - well in art too.
Everyone has a different cover art background and experience. As a kid Caravanserai era Santana covers were the coolest. The Vizier thinks cover art begins and ends with Roger Dean's Yes covers - whereas I always thought they looked a bit naff.
Plus I'm not a visual artist or designer really - I enjoy having ago but it's not my trade - My fave cd cover I've designed is probably Continuum - Neptune. and was quite pleased with Chocolate Bossa and the new Planet Scanners CD.
Some fave cover art out there
looking at my CD collection - sizable - it;'s surprising how few CDs cover art reall send me,
