Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
Idea 1
A course by Alejandro Ros , Graphic Designer
About the video: Idea 1
Overview
“Here you will see how ideas are born. You can start by looking for an element that plays with the name of the album, or with the feeling that the music and lyrics leave you with. ”
In this video lesson Alejandro Ros addresses the topic: Idea 1, 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
“Idea We already had the meeting. Now we have to see what we do with that information, how ideas come about That is what I will tell you now. This is the first time who calls me Miranda! to work together. The album is called "The album of your heart". As at that time they were accusing the band to be a product I said: "What better than to put the accusation on the cover." So we reproduced the McDonald's logo, the colors, the shapes. The M is similar to that of the famous hamburger. The company came and told us: "No, guys, you can't use that logo on the album cover." We had to withdraw all pr...”
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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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