The document provides analyses of several album covers and band websites. It summarizes the key design elements and promotional strategies used for the album covers The Album Leaf - "Into the Blue Again", Radiohead - "OK Computer", and Brand New - "Daisy". It also analyzes the homepages for bands Alexisonfire, Interpol, and Death Cab for Cutie, noting design features and how each site promotes the bands' music and activities.
2. The bands name and album title ‘The album leaf’ into the blue again is located on the top right hand corner in a small handwritten font. It’s much like a signature from an artist, it’s simple and small. Suggesting that there is no need for it to be ‘in your face’ as the target audience would know the band. A brown, paper like, border is used around the cover, it is the same colour as the font, which in turn makes catches the attention of the audience as everything else is a different colour. The detonated meaning of the image is a table with dirt , nails, thread going around the nails and paper. However, abstractly the image is of a beach, the blue cloth being the see and the dirt being the sand. The nails and thread is like a net, that isn’t allowing anything passed. The name of the album and the front cover share a semiotic relationship as the title of it is ‘Into the blue again’, blue being the sea, and the cover is an image of a beach. Analysis Covers The Album Leaf – Into the blue again Overall, the cover is quite simple, there aren’t colours that stand out and the bands name isn’t centred across the cover.
3. Analysis Covers Radiohead – OK COMPUTER Once again, the album title and the band name is in a smaller font, a block font is used as it’s called ‘OK COMPUTER’ and stereotypically, that is a commonly used computer font. The bands name is in their own font, it used on all, if not most of the bands posters/albums/promotional merchandise. The picture itself is a negative of a motorway. It’s made to look busy and chaotic. The use of a negative image made it look quite arty and different to other products out there, differentiating the band and creating a sense of uniqueness. A silhouette of a person at the back of the motorway. Two posters entitled; ‘Lost Style’ and ‘Lost Child’ suggesting that they’re both of similar importance, which in a way, the cover is making a statement as to what is wrong with the world. An image of a person is faded into the main image, it looks like he’s running away from something with something in his hands. Another sub-image; Nose of a crashed aeroplane, people fighting and a cross inside a blue banner, suggesting that this needs to stop, the fighting and terrorism.
4. Analysis Covers Brand New - Daisy This album cover is so simple, it is literally just a mid shot of a fox in a forest, with a few snow flakes falling. Depth of field is used as the fox is in the foreground, as well as the snow flakes, the focus isn’t on the forest behind. The cover doesn’t have anything to do with the name of the album, there isn’t a daisy in sight. Due to this simplicity the band comes across as people who don’t really care what the artwork looks like and that it is all about the music. This is a stereotypical trait of bands in this genre, they’re just a bit ‘too cool’ to care, using the approach that the music will sell the album. The font and font size is so simple, it looks like Times New Roman, the colour white had to be used as it wouldn’t be able to stand out if it were any other colour. The image is very centred, the fox is right in the middle, as well as the bands name and the name of the album, there is also a tree right in the middle, with two trees symmetrical to each other next to it.
