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CD COVER DESIGN

Into: Often a graphic designer does not choose their material and instead are given material from which to work with on their design. In this CD design project you must choose from the images provided. It is your task to develop a voice for the music genre of your client by developing a total package, i.e. treatment of the images, layout and the fonts.

Goal: Produce a CD design for the jewel case. The design thematically gives voice to the musical genre of your client. The images, fonts and layout capture and express the feeling of your music genre.

Objective: Successful use of stock images from client's folder. Successful use of Photoshop's blending, text tool, effects and brushes. Successful use of type and typography. Successful placement of all created artwork as well as your Illustrator created artwork.

Step One:

Choose your musical genre from the CD Groups Folder
run: \\172.18.35.224 > Folder Mpstudent> Folder CD Groups

Step Two:

Research your musical genre from the following links:
- Techno,Jazz, Heavy Metal, Bubblegum Pop, Punk, R&B, Soul, Hip-hop, Classic Rock

Step Three:
Analyze what kind of voice a designer would created for that genre.

List five action words that describe the image of your musician

List five action words that express the sounds of your musical category

Fill out the following form and print.

Name of artist

Title of CD

Bad design

The Anatomy of Your CD Front Cover.

CD Requirements:
Front Cover

Choose images from the CD Project images Folder.
run: \\172.18.35.224 >mpstudent>CD Project images
You can only use images from the CD Project Images Folder.
You must use at least one brush.
You can make any brush you like from any image you like.
You are to use a type treatment for the title of the your CD.
You are to use choose a type treatment from pslover.com, choose Text Effect

CD Settings:
Front Cover

FRONT COVER SIZE
120mm x120mm
Resolution
150 dpi (dots per inch)
Mode
RGB
Contents
White

CD Information:
Front Cover

Title of CD
Name of Artist
Image of Artist
Secondary Image
Text Effect on only Title
Brush
Graphic Element and/or Border
Layout treatment

Principles of Design:

Balance
Harmony
Contrast
Dominance
Color
White Space
Alignment
Proximity