The albums make such an impression because it focuses on the artist or bands image as a whole and style. Most of the time that is other times it is when the artists create new albums and songs. The artwork is then reflected by such and sets a theme to all the music within the album.
Marianas Trench: Masterpiece Theater- I enjoy this cover art, and not because they are my favorite band, but because it is just so simple and gets the point across. During this time of their album, Josh Ramsay wanted it to be a masterpiece. So what better way to expose master music, then calling the album such. The design is clean and gets the point across, no it does not have the band on the cover, like the other two above have, but if a band has such an impact sometimes you do not always need the visual images. This cover is just a stage shot looking out to the audience, yes there is no audience. This implies they are trying to get to the big stage and arena gigs. This is art is mainly focused on the type of font, and a show type atmosphere.
John Forerty: Revival- Now I am not a big fan of country, but my mother loves this guy and I grew up listening to his music. He wrote a song for everyone, that was his motto. Though he still kept to his style and taste. It was just the lyrics of the song as opposed the tune. In this album cover you can notice and feel the country vibe from the tall weeds, but the bright use of yellow colors in the back really brings to the light the revival text.
Queen: The Miracle- There was something about this album that really caught my eye. One body, but four faces. This shows Queen as a whole with the different faces of the group, each one of equal importance. I related this cover art to how there songs are always so long and drawn out, like it is one piece in itself. Grant it may seem disturbing at first but if you look behind the image and think why they choose to do such idea, then it makes sense.
The alignment of the title is centered with the featured names aligned even through out the title The Air I Breathe. Making it easy to associate who is who within the film. The texts towards the bottom is a wrapped text to form around the hand of the gun. The placement of this text allows the full image to be seen and not blocked by the text.
The yellow butterfly and gun with the images of faces contribute to visual hierarchy along with the main title. My eyes seemed to go towards the yellow butterfly because of the vibrant eye popping color. From that point I didnt look upward but rather downward, from the butterfly and onto the images of faces placed within the black silhouette of the gun. I think why this is, because I tend to match faces with names as opposed to names with faces. Unless these are known faces like Sarah Michelle Geller and Brendan Fraser.
The main color of the poster is a sky grey tint blue. The butterfly is placed upon the brighter light implying hope. The gun is the largest object within the whole poster, though obviously serves a major part in the film. When the faces are placed within the gun the first two on the upper right are more of profile shots, then towards then bottom the faces become more of a straight on mug shot. The placement and the angles of the faces fit to go along the image of the gun. This also contributes to the balancing aspect of the poster.
The directional flow moves really well. As said before, my eye mainly looks at the yellow butterfly then moves downward onto the gun and the faces within. From then I look back up to view at what the gun seems to be aiming at, which would be the title of the film and who is staring in the motion picture. The text in the lower right hand corner I seem to look at last. I believe the main focus is the image itself and at that point draws you in to look further on what the image maybe all about.
I would say that the poster has a visible grid. Not in the sense that you see the lines of the grid visually, but are able to tell just by the placement of the images and fonts. Using the rule of thirds, they align within the grid.
The main area where you can see the use of negative space would be the lower right hand corner. If that type were placed on the let side of the butterfly it would appear to be to busy and top heavy. Making the poster seem un balanced.
Marianas Trench: Masterpiece Theater- I enjoy this cover art, and not because they are my favorite band, but because it is just so simple and gets the point across. During this time of their album, Josh Ramsay wanted it to be a masterpiece. So what better way to expose master music, then calling the album such. The design is clean and gets the point across, no it does not have the band on the cover, like the other two above have, but if a band has such an impact sometimes you do not always need the visual images. This cover is just a stage shot looking out to the audience, yes there is no audience. This implies they are trying to get to the big stage and arena gigs. This is art is mainly focused on the type of font, and a show type atmosphere.
John Forerty: Revival- Now I am not a big fan of country, but my mother loves this guy and I grew up listening to his music. He wrote a song for everyone, that was his motto. Though he still kept to his style and taste. It was just the lyrics of the song as opposed the tune. In this album cover you can notice and feel the country vibe from the tall weeds, but the bright use of yellow colors in the back really brings to the light the revival text.
Queen: The Miracle- There was something about this album that really caught my eye. One body, but four faces. This shows Queen as a whole with the different faces of the group, each one of equal importance. I related this cover art to how there songs are always so long and drawn out, like it is one piece in itself. Grant it may seem disturbing at first but if you look behind the image and think why they choose to do such idea, then it makes sense.
The alignment of the title is centered with the featured names aligned even through out the title The Air I Breathe. Making it easy to associate who is who within the film. The texts towards the bottom is a wrapped text to form around the hand of the gun. The placement of this text allows the full image to be seen and not blocked by the text.
The yellow butterfly and gun with the images of faces contribute to visual hierarchy along with the main title. My eyes seemed to go towards the yellow butterfly because of the vibrant eye popping color. From that point I didnt look upward but rather downward, from the butterfly and onto the images of faces placed within the black silhouette of the gun. I think why this is, because I tend to match faces with names as opposed to names with faces. Unless these are known faces like Sarah Michelle Geller and Brendan Fraser.
The main color of the poster is a sky grey tint blue. The butterfly is placed upon the brighter light implying hope. The gun is the largest object within the whole poster, though obviously serves a major part in the film. When the faces are placed within the gun the first two on the upper right are more of profile shots, then towards then bottom the faces become more of a straight on mug shot. The placement and the angles of the faces fit to go along the image of the gun. This also contributes to the balancing aspect of the poster.
The directional flow moves really well. As said before, my eye mainly looks at the yellow butterfly then moves downward onto the gun and the faces within. From then I look back up to view at what the gun seems to be aiming at, which would be the title of the film and who is staring in the motion picture. The text in the lower right hand corner I seem to look at last. I believe the main focus is the image itself and at that point draws you in to look further on what the image maybe all about.
I would say that the poster has a visible grid. Not in the sense that you see the lines of the grid visually, but are able to tell just by the placement of the images and fonts. Using the rule of thirds, they align within the grid.
The main area where you can see the use of negative space would be the lower right hand corner. If that type were placed on the let side of the butterfly it would appear to be to busy and top heavy. Making the poster seem un balanced.
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