CD cover designs

CD cover designs.

We were given the task of creating album covers, using the most random picture but it had to be Flickr's most interesting, the name of the band had to be a random article from a wikipedia and the album name was the last bit of a random quote. Here are my designs of 'Molecule Motor' album titled 'Lonliness is underrated'

Peter Saville



Peter Saville is a graphic designer who was in partnership with late Grenada presenter Tony Wilson and Rob Gretton who together formed 'Factory records' while working at Factory he designed album covers for Joy Division, Happy Mondays, New Order and also all of the factory records art and the design of Factory's 'Hacienda Night Club' Without knowing that Saville was the mastermind behind the cover art for Factory Records I have always been really inspired by the design of Factory's logo's and posters and Peter Saville is somebody who I will most definately look into in the future.



Peter Saville Factory poster





Happ Mondays cover



Royal Mail record cover stamps.

The Royal Mail are set to release a new range of postal stamps based around great British classic albums set to go on sale in Post Offices up and down the country sometime this year or so, I thought it was a brilliant idea and I'm sure it will catch the eye of many stamp collectors. The masterminds behind this idea are StudioDempsey designing all the stamps which range from album covers from Blur's 'Parklife' album (designed by Chris Thomson / Stylorouge. Photography: Bob Thomas), New Order's beautiful 'Power, Corruption and lies' (Designed by Peter Saville)

Joy Division

I'm mainly inspired by the photography of Joy Division as many photographers capture the Gloom of the band by presenting it in Black and White.

This photograph was taken by a young photographer at the time called Jill Furmanovsky who emigrated from Zimbabwe with her parents in 1965, she is a rock photographer who has worked for London's Rainbow Theatre after studying at an Art & Design college. Over her career she has photographed many of the biggest names in Post Punk, Rock and roll which include: Oasis, Joy Division, The Clash, Led Zeppelin and The Pretenders. She has also brought out a book in 1995 called 'The Moment - 25 years of Rock Photography' followed by Oasis' 'Was there ten' tour in the same year.

She writes about this particular photograph of Joy Division her book in the caption beneath the photograph which I think really portrays the distinctiveness and quality that Joy Division put forth towards the post punk era, despite the band looking happy in general here, there music was very dark and Ian Curtis' lyrics almost drew you in to a pondering thought of life. In the period after the photograph with Joy Division enjoying much success.. the lead singer Ian Curtis (second one in from the left) hung himself at his Macclesfield home as a result of suffering manic depression, epilepsy and marriage problems.

                                            (Liam Gallagher of Oasis on the Was there ten tour)