vaughan oliver talks about his art

stacy: david carson and 9 inch nails

ALEC - the mixtape

From a young age I’ve been painfully obsessed with Lego.

Planning

Designing

Building

As I grew up I traded blocks for beats. My cd will include some of my mixes, remixes and blends as well as original and remixed tracks from a few of my mates from Ballina/Lennox and Goldy. The package will be a 2 sided digi pack with a sleeve for a booklet. The booklet will contain photos and illustrations and text all in the flavour of the music. It will be most likely a mash up of images but still maintain a simple and refreshing look. I’ve set the bar pretty high for myself on this one because if I can pull it off well I’ll be able to use this as a ‘resume’ for getting work at clubs!!!

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stacy:check out this video on peter saville

Peter Saville, formerly chief designer at Factory Records, created some of the most iconic British album covers in the last thirty years, for bands including Joy Division, Pulp and Suede. He recently selected some favourite cover art from University of the Arts alumni for their Spin exhibition. We went down to his studio to talk about then and now.

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/fast/peter-saville

Rosalind- CD

My cd will be based on rock/metal/grunge style music. It will be a 6 panel digipack with insert sleeve with an eight page booklet. I intend to do a combination of photography and a little illustration. I am hoping to play with some cut outs, but only if it works with the design as a whole.
I am tending to lean towards the tool shed that my husband has downstairs as my main influence, there is a lot of interesting stuff in it. This obviously means there will be no pretty pastel colours in my design!

Govinda-CD Package Intensions

I will be producing a reggae remix CD called Mi Museek. I will be using a Digipak cover as I hate jewel cases. This will be either a two fold or three fold. The CD will sit in either one of those plastic trays or a simple cardboard sleeve inside the Digipak. I hope to take my own photographs for the CD and integrate it with drawn elements and colour. The booklet will be something special, something that the viewer can look at again and again and will encourage people to buy the CD instead of downloading it.

I want the CD package to be a visual feast. Beautiful. Epic.

CD Design-Kurt

Drum and Bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass, drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle which emerged in the late 1980s.
The genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beats (generally between 160–180 bpms).This is a very high energy style of music, and to my ears the sound is futuristic.
The music i am choosing will be a dj mix of my all time favorite tracks from Artists such as Andy C, Ram Trilogy, Aphrodite, Dillinger, EZ Rollers, Krust, Dj Zinc, Matrix, London Electricity and Ed Rush and Optical to name a few.

For the Artwork I will be taking influence from futuristic scenes, robotics, cyborgs, Ninja"s and combining abstract forms and backrounds to create graphic images. The color pallet will be definately dark and minimal.
Typographically depending on how strong my images are I have a select few typefaces in mind that are as stealth as a cybotic ninja for the title of the artist.

I really like the idea of opening a cd booklet and the whole cover becomes a poster so i,m thinking that I will use this paper folding technique inside of a Digipack case.