From looking at and taking inspiration from the Obama 'Hope' poster for his 2008 campaign, I used one of my own photographs taken outside of The American Embassy to create a similar image to use to promote the band. Originally, I planned to use the image for the front cover of the album, however, on second thoughts I felt that it would be inappropriate to use on the album itself as I would have to follow the style as a theme. This presented two problems; the idea isn't completely original as it was influenced by the work of Shepard Fairey, and so I would like the majority of my work on the print production to be original ideas coming from myself. Secondly, if using this style with the bold colours throughout the album, I feel that it would be too busy and would attract attention from the audience in the wrong way by being too loud and garish. Baring this in mind, the image of the businessman Photoshopped in the style of the Obama poster could work well as an additional poster/insert that would be part of the album, but not the covers itself.
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| Original photograph of the actor used for editing in Photoshop |
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| Finished version of Obama style poster to be used as an insert/extra |
Below are all of the steps used in creating the image in Photoshop:
I think your finished image is impressive and perhaps worth rather more than an "add in" to your digipak. I think it would make a splendid front cover.
ReplyDeleteAgain I agree that 4 panels in this style could be overwhelming and as you say busy....but you could use other colours to represent the !% and 99% in other panels developing the stencil style.
Splendid planning in your uploaded images of the process of your design.