Evaluation of Final Outcome...

This term our project brief was to make a CD for Our Song of the Summer of our favourite artists. I found this brief really easy to adapt to because I love listening to music and when I first heard about it, I felt really enthusiastic about it. The artist that I choose what The Wanted, who are a British/Irish group that were formed in 2009 and have come from nothing to being one of the most well known bands across the world. I wanted to create a CD that would resealable them as a band but put my stamp on it as a fan of theirs.

The creative journey I took with this was with looks of different experiments from typography photos to stencilling to mix-media designs. I found that all of the different techniques were quite challenging in there own way. Also the different artist and designers that i came across was quite eye-opening to look because of the stages they had to go through to get a final result.


The artists that i looked at were Julian Opie and Jonathan Tran. They are both artists that specialise in Illustrations and Stencilling. Opie is most famous for his Blur album cover of the band turned into cartoons. I wanted to use this artist work in the inlay because the booklet is one of the things people like to look at; song lyrics or thank you messages. And with adding pictures to the book, i feel it will give another dimension to it. With Trans work, i was inspired by how something so simple can be so effective when stencilling. I wanted to use his work for my  homemade logo design, by cutting around the logo and spray painting it onto my packaging. 

In my opinion i feel like i have achieved a lot with this project, because it has something to so with my favourite band , so I feel i had to do my absolute best to get it right. I feel that the stencil work has work out great because even though i did scan the spray-painted logo in to the computer, you can still see the detail of the paint splatter. Also i love the booklet as it has also got the stencil logo on it plus the Opie inspired images. Another reason why I like this outcome was because of the masking fluid image stencil that is placed on the second page of the CD packaging. 

If i could improve anything on my packaging it would be to take a little bit time to cut out around the packaging to it looks a lot more cleaner and more professional. As I felt when i folded the net, the folds started to rip slightly, so if i could re-do the folds again i would be happy with that. 

Overall, I have really enjoyed this project, with all the different experiments and techniques that i have learnt over the past couple of months. I have really enjoyed learning how to refine techniques and to create different ways of making packing and booklets. Also analysing different CD albums who suit a range of target audiences. I hope that My Album is relevant to the artist.