Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
Meeting with the musicians
A course by Alejandro Ros , Graphic Designer
About the video: Meeting with the musicians
Overview
“To begin with, I will show you what it is like to meet the musicians and listen to the demos with them. What could you ask them? ”
In this video lesson Alejandro Ros addresses the topic: Meeting with the musicians, which is part of the Domestika online course: Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists. Learn to design album covers by translating music into images, from the initial idea to the finished artwork.
Partial transcription of the video
“Meeting with the musicians Now let's get to work. The first thing that happens is that the band or the representative of the band or soloist calls you to take care of the work. That call can be direct from the musician, what happens to me when i meet the musician and there perhaps already begins to dialogue on the subject. Maybe the musician will tell me: "The album is called that" and already there the head can begin to work. For example, in 2003, Babasónicos called me to make the cover of an album that was going to be called "Free". Two days before delivery I already had the sketches made...”
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Course summary for: Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
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Category
Design -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Art Direction, Graphic Design
Alejandro Ros
A course by Alejandro Ros
Originally from Tucumán, Argentina, Alejandro Ros is a graphic designer. His specialty is album covers and he has collaborated with great bands and singers from all over the world such as Soda Stereo, Cerati, Fito Páez, Julieta Venegas, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Juana Molina, Miranda! Babasónicos, Spinetta, Mercedes Sosa, and Bersuit, to name just a few.
His work was awarded the 2002 Konex platinum award in the graphic design category, as well as 7 Gardel awards, and 3 Grammy awards for album covers. He also gets creative through videos, performances, installations, book covers, magazine covers, and even costume parties.
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