Designing a Music Story Cover

The author explored the importance of graphic design in the world of music in her diploma thesis and, based on her research, designed a graphic cover for an original album. Taking into account theoretical research and the results of collected surveys, she embarked on creating a design that considers not only general principles of graphic design, but also the expectations and collective opinions of music lovers. Thus, she defined the relationships between music covers, the music itself, graphic design and consumers.

Solution and Method

The author explored the importance of graphic design in the world of music in her diploma thesis and, based on her research, designed a graphic cover for an original album. She analysed successful covers from different periods and genres and studied their development, then focused on basic visual elements in the context of graphic cover design and examined the importance of colour, typography, composition and appropriate digital tools for realising the product. Before designing the cover, she studied the technical requirements of printing and adapting the cover to various digital and physical formats, then defined the target audience and message of the music album and, based on inspirations, identified the visual elements that the cover needs to successfully convey the visual message to the audience.

Since the album already had an original version of the cover, she examined the creation, advantages and shortcomings of that very one. Based on the developed concept, which she designed in rough form in Adobe Photoshop, she approached the design in Adobe Illustrator, where she precisely created individual elements using vector graphics and thus completed them into the envisioned concept of growing up and developing oneself.

Results

Taking into account theoretical research and the results of collected surveys, she embarked on creating a design that considers not only general principles of graphic design, but also the expectations and collective opinions of music lovers. Thus, she defined the relationships between music covers, the music itself, graphic design and consumers. After designing the cover, she paid attention to audience responses and adapted it accordingly based on comments and criticism.

The research in the diploma thesis provides evidence of the importance and positive impact of art and encompasses the significance and complexity of mixing musical and visual art, which enrich each other in the world of art.