Furiouser and Spuriouser
Album Cover
Designer: Iris Pham
Deliverables: Vinyl Album Cover
Instructor: Judy Armstrong
Overview
For this project, I am tasked to design an album cover for Furiouser and Spuriouser. It is a musical piece delves into a world of unsettled logic and shifting moods, where musical structure unravels in unexpected and often disorienting ways. My main inspiration is Movement Six - The Tea Party, since it has the chaos, craziness and reverse lullaby quality. The cover uses RGB colour palette to portray the piece's setting, which is inside the monitors. The texts are the lyrics taken from Movement Six, layered with lines that represent distorted musical staff but also the screen static lines, depicting the chaotic and dramatic atmosphere of the piece.
Album Sleeve with Vinyl
Concepts and Process Work
Furiouser and Spuriouser Album Cover
Album Cover Mockup and Details
Reflection
At the start, I was caught up with the rabbit hole concept, and that gave me some trouble in effectively communicating the theme and visualizing the sound. Therefore, I took a step back and went to listen to the piece. When I listened to Movement Six - The Tea Party, I thought it perfectly summarized the content of this music piece. Using it as inspiration helped me to approach this project differently, and I chose a typographic solution to illustrate the 'spoken words' quality of this piece. I am happy with this design as it does not follow my usual way of designing for a project, which fits greatly with this piece's unconventional and chaotic nature.