CD Cover Meme

The rules:

1. Go to Wikipedia. Hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to Random quotations. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to flickr and click on explore the last seven days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. Preferably in a square format layout, like a nice old-timey vinyl album cover.

WIKI ARTICLE: Worker Studio

QUOTATION: and damned if you don't

The title 'Worker Studio' sounded to me like a nu-wave or electro band, so I researched the genre and its sister styles such as 'Synthpop', 'Techno', 'Dubstep' and 'Trip Hop'.

TRIP HOP

Trip hop is a genre of electronic music that originated in the early 90s in the United Kingdom. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which contains influences of soul, funk and jazz. It is separated from standard electro due to the fact that the music is based on ambient repetition and drum-based breakdowns. "A fusion of Hip Hop and Electronica until neither genre is recognisable.'

Example of Trip hop artists include:

Each of these CD covers have the image of an individual on the cover, with support Goodwin's theory on the aspect of looking. Also, they are diverse in nature: Where massive attack uses bright colours and textured spray paints, Tricky's album is sterile and clean and the image of the man in the middle is faded and contrasted, which perhaps ties in with the effect the music may have on a listener.

However, Portishead's CD cover seemed the most suitable for the single image rule, so I decided to draw inspiration from the Dummy Album.

Although somewhere along the line, I got carried away with photoshop:

The stripes were achieved with the selection and vertical transform tool, and the middle section was the result of tampering with the brightness and contrast with the curve tool. The font is clean and simple, and centred in order to draw the eye - as adding another image (of a person in the centre) was not allowed.