CD cover research

The album cover at the top was one of the first Joy Division albums 'Substance' designed by Peter Saville, the design is now a well renowned t-shirt design but at the same time is very strange. I can only presume it is either a take on a mountain skyline or a pile of heartbeat monitor control. But with Peter Saville, Joy Division and the rest of there designs, you will never know.

The second of the two above is Maximo Park's 'A Certain Trigger' This is one of my favourite designs and a CD cover that has caught my eye in the past, Maximo Park are a very good band, and this design shows that with the photo representing movement and life, and the block red text which very largely emphasises Maximo Park's red and black theme. 

Flyer Design.

As an add on to the poster, we were asked to also take a picture for a flyer, I mostly used the same sort of effects as the poster, but with a blue and red gradient and the same fonts used, I also again used the high pass/hard light effect to give the image a contrast.

Poster design.

On our trip looking for a photo around Burton, I spotted a group member looking at a wall with an umbrella, as seen below. I thought this was a good photo so I photographed and used it to design my poster. I begun editing the photograph by putting a high pass on the picture (>FILTER>OTHER>HIGH PASS) and then set the layer style to hard light, I then thought it would look good if I added a colour glow over the picture so I created a gradient layer using red and green and set the layer style to screen. I also added lines going in different directions at the bottom to give it depth. For the main bit I created the band logo by using a font called '215000E' I then used clippings from a mens fashion magazine and a band of brothers photo from Iraq in the clipping mask, I also stroked the text with outside black 7px, and used windows default font 'Myraid Pro' and shortened the kerning of the text which looks really good with that particular font. 'The Abbey' flyer to follow.                                                        

Poster and flyer assignment

We were given the task of going out around Burton and take pictures that we thought was fit to be a background for a poster and a flyer promoting a gig night, to follow I will put up the original photo and poster soon to be followed by a flyer.