Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
Idea 2
A course by Alejandro Ros , Graphic Designer
About the video: Idea 2
Overview
“I will continue talking to you about how the ideas for the different projects that I have carried out have come about. Perhaps these ideas will give birth to some beads in your mind.”
In this video lesson Alejandro Ros addresses the topic: Idea 2, 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 When Juanse calls me to make the cover of his album "Baldíos Lunas", I presented him with a sketch of an ass with a small mole and we had to look for a model with a mole there and we got it. When the Kuryaki call me to do the cover of their album "Milk", they already had the concept of Playboy clear, they wanted to replicate the Playboy aesthetic. So the day the photos were taken I went with a plasticola and wrote the word "milk" between the chest of a model. Inside, the aesthetics of Playboy magazine are reproduced. They are all naked models in hot situations. Here is the central post...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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