Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
Launch
A course by Alejandro Ros , Graphic Designer
About the video: Launch
Overview
“Finally, I will tell you about everything that happens in the album release stage: animations for networks, t-shirts, posters, networks, videos and singles. ”
In this video lesson Alejandro Ros addresses the topic: Launch, 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
“Launch Now let's see everything that happens in the album release stage, how the graphic system created for it works. When they decide to make the first cut, "For loving love" is the name of the song, I offer the boys to direct a video clip using the same elements that we already had produced for the lid. We recorded this video clip in the same photographic studio where the album photos were taken, Marcelo Setton's studio, we just rent other materials to do it, other cameras, other lights. Like the lyrics of the song I didn't have much to do with those pictures, what I did was to match some...”
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Course summary for: Album-Cover Design for Bands and Solo Artists
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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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