Designing the Front Cover

Hey guys, I'm currently in Miami International Airport when I started writing this, and probably in Charleston, SC when this is finished. Anyways, I was watching this video on YouTube about glitching photos with an audio program. I really like the abstract results it makes, so I'm gonna do something like that for the album cover. Maybe even the back if I'm feeling silly... 

I took some photos of my hotel! I'll narrow down which photo I wanna go with later. I like how psychedelic the carpet looks like, almost like a 13th Floor Elevator cover. And the architecture of the staircase feels out of place in a modern hotel, kinda like the Backrooms. 

It's time for an update! I'm no longer in Miami, or Charelston, but Savannah, Georgia. I gave it some thought, and I decided to scratch that idea because none of the results looked good and Jack agreed with that, and all I did was distort carpet. So I'm pulling a Radiohead and doing the (kinda but not that) greatest left turn in music history by completely redesigning the front cover.

Recently I've been listening to more New Order, and I saw the album cover for Music Complete. I also saw a playlist for highlights of Van Halen on Spotify, which had this really cool stripe design. Both of these fall under the neoplasticism movement, which is an art style that reduced the amount of visual elements to reach "pure" abstraction. I imagine that this style would stand out in a CD section.

With that, I made this in Canva. I then decided to expand that and included the star from the logo into the cover, as well as the song name + artist.

My brother actually gave me a really helpful tip! Have each color on their own layer, so the other colors look like "shadows". I implemented this by having black on top, white in the middle, and blue on the bottom.

I sent this and the back cover to Jack, and he approved both of these!