Creating the CD Cover

I have researched some CD covers to give me ideas for my CD Cover design. I have planned the idea of having a skyscraper outline across the cover mixed with another idea I had of 'sex. drugs & rock'n'roll', with the bottles, cigarettes etc. So I thought about using both ideas to produce the final piece. I want to keep it quite simple and make it very easy to understand but still interesting to look at. I have planned the design of each side of the CD. My aim is to make it look really raw and grungy, so I will use ripped up newspaper and creased polaroids to give the effect. I have also chosen not to create it digitally, this will make it look clean cut and perfected where as I am aiming for the opposite. So. I will create it on paper with cut outs and then scan it to look as messy as possible.


I have collected a few fonts that I thought would look good on the magazine poster and the CD cover. The front of the CD cover will not have a certain font as I will have collected cut outs and stuck them on. But, for the spine of the digi-pack, the lyrics fold and the back I will need the same font to keep it consistent.


Below I have chosen a few fonts that in my opinion will go well with the rest of the CD Cover and Magazine Poster.

THE CITY LIGHTZ
-Helvetica

the CITY LIGHTZ "drink"
-Trebuchet


The City Lightz
      DRINK
-Verdana


The fonts I have chosen above are all very similar and simple. I didn't want to make it more complicated or fancy because there is already enough detail on the cover.




Below is a plan of the CD cover that I have sketched out to give me an idea of what it will look like. This will also show me if there are any changes to be made.

The image above is a scan of the plans that I sketched out for the CD cover. I drew out a detailed version of what the CD will look like or what I would like to to look like.

The image above is the continued scan of the image above showing the other sections of the CD cover e.g. the folds, the spine, the CD trays.

The image above is a scan of ideas that I have created for the magazine poster, The image below is also another idea for the magazine poster, both are both related to the CD cover, which is what I am aiming for. I would prefer to create the magazine poster more like the scan below because it is more similar to the CD cover and will look more consistent.