In today's digital media era, physical music albums are fading, and digital media music is rising. But no matter what form, the covers of these albums always attract us at the first sight. If you want to make the album cover attractive, you need to shape your own personal style. Now the natural light is coming to share some album covers with a very personal style, and these covers will certainly provide more help for our collection design inspiration.
Design inspiration of works collection:
Bj ö rk with weird avant-garde vision
Bj ö rk is a world-famous Icelandic musician. She mainly focuses on creating some artistic and experimental music. She combines her creation with her own experience and uses music to explore profound topics: women's liberation, cultural totem, earth protection, finding her own utopia, etc.
Each cover of her album is very personal. The album is dominated by portraits. The weird and avant-garde elements in the picture, flowers and roots representing natural elements, red with visual impact, exaggerated makeup and hairstyle, etc., all kinds of elements converge to make the picture full of strange colors, which is difficult not to be attracted.
Left: Vulnicura Live; Right: Bachelorett
Left: Homegenic; Right: Utopia
The most representative one is the cover of Homegenic designed by Alexander McQueen. The multi-layer loops, towering hairstyle, long nails, exotic clothes, and calm expression on the neck discuss the changes of all things and the gene world of harmony between man and nature.
This strange avant-garde visual style is not so beautiful, but it is enough to resonate with the audience. This is due to good works. Gorgeous expression is only a bonus, but the unique and interesting soul is the core. If the creation only seeks to look good, it must be soulless and hard to impress people.
Inspired by the works collection of Zhifang, a student of natural light, in order to better explain the harm of "eating disorder", a psychological disease, an ugly image of the toilet is selected. The toilet is displayed in the way of photography, which can not only echo the theme, but also make readers not disgusted by visual reasons.
Arca, who made the experiment to the extreme
Arca is the only one who can achieve the ultimate vision experiment of darkness. His original name is Alejandro Ghersi, and he is a Venezuelan electronic music producer praised as a genius by Bj ö rk.
Arca is keen on creating unstable, unbalanced and distorted sound effects, and her works express pain to the extreme. The cover of his album is full of horror elements, which is no less terrifying than the propaganda posters of horror movies.
Left: Arca; Right: Mutant
Left: Xen; Right: Thievey
This kind of dark visual expression can bring readers a strong visual impact and shock. If we can grasp this dark and horrible atmosphere well, it is easy to win in the homogenized "beauty".
Project of Rong's Collected Works of Natural Light
Rong, a student of natural light, created three devices of "plastic surgery", "obesity" and "language injury" inspired by the design of his work collection to a human size of 1:1. The devices were shaped by adhesive tape in the early stage, and then reconstructed and spliced.
The red tape, gauze, stick, wound, and implied blood in the device form a thick dark wind to the final finished product. This style will increase the heaviness of the topic, which is more likely to cause the public to reflect on the over evaluation of women's image and stop the injury.
FKA Twigs Telling Women's Stories
The music of FKA Twigs contains depression, lust, dedication, dependence and contradiction at the same time. She is willing to embrace and find strength in everything that is considered fragile. The album cover, just like music, tells stories and aspirations about women.
The cover of the album "MAGDALENE" was painted by British artist Matthew Stone. In the cover, her body seemed to be covered with layers of paint, but she looked fearless under the distortion. At that time, she had six uterine fibroids removed, suffered great physical pain, and was suffering from two emotional public opinion disturbances. She experienced pain and suffering in reality and expressed her fearless spirit in the album.
Left: LP1 2; Right: MAGDALENE
Left: M3LL155X; Right: Cellophane
Similarly, Sevdaliza shows women's difficulties and pains through music. Her music or professional covers reveal her unconstrained and surreal creativity.
Left: The Suspended Kid; Right: ISON
We can see that the topic of women and women's rights has always been a hot topic, which many artists are keen to express. However, the creation of this topic needs to find a good perspective. It is best to combine your own experience and make full research to make new ideas.
Pictures of Natural Light Jewelry Professional Student Collection Project
A jewelry major of Natural Light, through her Pure art study abroad The project appeals to everyone to pay attention to women's human rights. The inspiration of the project comes from her personal experience with her relatives.
She materialized the female organs in the form of clay sculptures to show the true state of "surrogate mother". The finished products are not worn by models, but by real "surrogate mothers", giving a visual impact to better explain that "women should not become reproductive tools", so as to appeal to the society to improve relevant systems and policies and fight for their human rights.
Summary:
As for the design inspiration of the album, today we share a few album covers with very personal characteristics. They are popular because they have interesting souls, which also tells us again that beauty and ugliness are no longer the criteria for judging art. Our creation should be inspired by feelings, rather than pursuing superficial and gorgeous vision. When studying, appreciating and studying these album covers, we should not only learn the way of photography, the art of color, composition methods, fashion styles, etc., but also understand the stories and ideas behind the creators, so that we can grasp the creative spirit and better improve our creativity.
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