Music Iconography designs

Album cover analysis

In this album cover for Duffys Rockferry album we can clearly see the artist as she is the focus of the cover. Also we can denote her name in an autographic font giving the buyer a sense it is for them. The album name is also denoted in block capital connoting it is important to read In this album cover for KT Tunstalls Drastic Fantastic album we can clearly see the artist as she is the focus of the cover, she also has a guitar which is a common convention for singersongwriters. Also we can denote her name in an block font connoting to the buyer that the name should be remembered as when using capitals it connotes shouting. The album name is also denoted in block capital connoting it is important to read In this album cover for Natalie Imbruglias Glorious album we can clearly see the artist as she is the focus of the cover. also we can denote her name in modern capitals giving the buyer a sense it is new and they should purchase this if they wish to be popular amongst friends. The album name is also denoted straight below her name in the same font connoting it is important to read just like her name.

Colour analysis- Adele

Colours used across Adeles Media
The main colour palette of the singer Adele is black and white. This is connoting to her audience that she is serious about her work and also some may be old fashioned because a common stereotype of black and white is that it is old media. The black may also suggest that her songs may contain sad/depressing lyrics, this is because black connotes death and sadness. However she has a splash of the colour green, drawing your eye towards that area. This causes the audience to remember the piece of media as it stands out from the back ground

Colour analysisKT Tunstall

Colours used across Adeles Media
The main colour palette of the singer KT Tunstall is black and white with coloured accents. This is connoting to her audience that she is serious about her work and also some may be old fashioned because a common stereotype of black and white is that it is old media. The black may also suggest that her songs may contain sad/depressing lyrics, this is because black connotes death and sadness. However the colour accents can connote joy and happiness as this singing is what she likes doing and listening to it may cheer you up. The colours will also make her more memorable as you will remember the colours standing out from the black and white background.

After researching artists from my music genre I found that autographic/calligraphic/ block capital letters, which are either modern or old fashioned style, fonts are the most common used for the artists name and song/album title. So using urbanfonts.com I have found some samples that I feel fit the genre of my artist.

Fonts

Here are some block capital examples:

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Here are some autographic fonts. I feel these would be applicable as they appear to be hand written such as a signature.

Colours
These colour palettes would work for my artists as they include dark colours (greys and blacks) but then have bright colours to use as accents when displaying images such as Adeles 21 album