ALBUM COVER

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALBUM COVER? 

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. 

EARLY YEARS OF ALBUM COVERS 

In 1938, Columbia Records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director, he was credited with inventing the concept of album covers and cover art, replacing plain covers used before. After his initial efforts at Columbia, other record companies followed his lead. By the late 1940s, record albums for all the major companies featured their own colorful paper covers in both 10" and 12" sizes. Some featured reproductions of classic art while others utilized original designs. 

This was a brown sleeve that was used on records covers before images and fine art  were used.

This is one of Alex Steinweiss' creation  which is more developed than the one above.

An early album cover

A current album cover

Georgia and I have not got very far in terms of designing an album cover ...

 HOWEVER

during one of our study periods on Monday we came up with a few ideas that may feature on our album cover...

Images and notes of things we came up with ...

cherries - symbolic for virginity, the term "popping your cherry"
It would be an ironic feature on our album cover because our subject matter
flips the focus onto the male.

condoms - symbolic when thoughts look at intercourse.

We didn't come up with very much together as our minds did go a drift from our work ...

I have taken some time to look and analyse the album cover of Madonna's 'Like A Virgin', to
see if using this process would give me any extra ideas for the creation of our album cover.

These are my personal ideas for our album cover...

Silhouettes - To connote the facelessness of the subject matter and the fact that anyone can become a victim of peer pressure.

Speech bubble - symbolizing the many confused thoughts that were going through our male 
protagonists head in our music video.

Condom - similar to the reason that Georgia and I came up with together