Foals - Antidotes: Album Cover Analysis

Simplistic Album Cover Creations

These are some simplistic album cover ideas that we have created. 'Troubled Town' probably won't be the title of the debut album for THE EVERYTHING however we wanted to use some kind of text to give us a better idea of how the cover would look. The simplistic and minimal look is a convention we have followed when creating this design. The use of the colours teal and black are what we believe look affective, however they are the same colours used in the logo, this can potentially be good or bad which we haven't quite figured yet. Also the use of binary opposites Black and White is useful too. We have used green as the base colour to on the final photo shown to replicate the artwork of 'WERKBUND - RUNGHOLT', these are colours we probably wouldn't have considered using, however they seem work with each other pretty well.

Simplstic Album Covers

Here are some examples of some simplistic album cover ideas. These album covers are realistically very easy to create; however they are extremely effective. For example the XX’s artwork for their album is simply a white ‘X’ placed on a plain black background. This binary opposite is very effective in gaining attention, and it represents the band too. Similarly Arctic Monkey’s album cover (first photo) uses the same colours, however includes sound waves in white in contrast to the X, yet again the simplistic/minimal look is very effective. The majority of these artworks are also from an indie or alternative genre, this can show that certain conventions seem to be followed throughout the genre, which is something to consider when designing our own cover.

Indie Artwork

Hip Hop Artwork/CD Covers