Studio Brief 01 - Secret 7: Final Design

In this design board, I have chosen this Record Sleeve design cover to be my final
submission for the live brief - Secret 7. I particular favoured this design as it really
portrayed the artists song and style well as the variety of the different shades of blue tones
gave a good theme for the overall concept of the chosen lyric that I selected. “You were
the perfect star.

Again describing the meaning of the design will be yet again explained here. The symbolism of the star is similar to a heart of the person who is going through a heart break thus this is similar feeling when the break bit is being cracked like glass. The glass look makes it highlight that the person’s heart is very sensitive and weak and the colours of the different shades/tones of blue express their unhappiness and also how innocent and pure they are.The way the star outline repeats depicts how the person is slowing forgetting the perfect star which has broken the heart of the star. This is strengthen by the grey gradient, giving the visual viewer a mystical, yet mysterious look for the album.

I tried to emphasise the pureness of the song by this kind of colour scheme, thus depicting
young love at an early star of life. To me personally the song portrays to me an image of a cry dance image; because of this my main focus of the sleeve was the broken, smashed star as it implies that this person or potential lover is no longer this ideal figure. I wanted the star to have a sort of abstract blue gradient effect to emphasise the colour of the cry/tear image. The multiple outlines of the shape enhance the effect of an image of the sound waves.

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