Friday, February 27, 2009

How to design a cool CD cover

Have you ever wondered how bands come up with their names or how designers come up with their weird CD covers? Well, here ya go. This is a Facebook special. (You know, where they pass it around and you come up with 25 things or put your IPOD on shuffle or something...)

1. Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random" or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2. Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3. Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days" or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use photoshop, the gimp or similar to put it all together.

5. Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.

I won't do number 5, but this is what I came up with this morning (a good "warm up" exercise of sorts for design...) :

1 comment:

JHP said...

Will you also be singing on this new album? ;)