Ansillery Text; Album Cover; Inspirations (Sabrina)

Official A2 BriefCreate a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with
A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
A magazine advertisement for the digikpak (CD/DVD package)

After looking at examples of New Wave style album covers, I have a rough idea of what I want to include on my own album cover. Here is the inspiration I will take from certain album covers -
The New Wave genre celebrated vivid colours and eccentric styles. Many New Wave artist featured pop art on their albums here are some examples:

Patrick Nagel

 A popular artist who actually became famous shortly before he passed away, is Patrick Nagel who was an American artist born in 1945 (passed away in 1984). Nagel’s art focused mainly on the gracefulness and beauty of the female form, and as mentioned before he became famous in 1982 when he illustrated the album cover of rock group ‘Duran Duran’s’ hit album RIO – which is now his best known image.

Nagel’s style was something different to other 80′s artist who had similar styles like pop art and art deco. But Nagel actually started off with photographs of real women, and would then gradually strip away elements he thought were not necessary. This resulted in his artwork appearing flat, nonetheless it emphasized the elements he kept and showed how he thought each element in the image is important – and how some are not needed to create an amazing art piece.

Nagel’s artwork is very graceful and simplified, but in some ways several pieces of his work can appear semi-provocative, but that may be what he intended. In actual fact, in 1976 Nagel contributed some of his artwork to Playboy magazine (which is probably why some of his work appears provocative), and this helped Nagel expand people’s awareness of his work of the women’s graceful form; and how he sees and thinks of it.

Patrick Nagel’s work is very similar to nowadays what we know to be called ‘vector art’. Art that consists of block shaded colours with no gradients or effects, just pure simple colour that makes up an image; the picture below is a nice example from Nagel’s collection:

I've looked at the work of Patrick Nigel as inspiration from my album cover, I found his work related well to the style I wanted to create around the fashion this of my brief. Here I have drawn some sketches fom his work to get a feel for his process and method.