Beck: The Information

My first reaction to this album cover was that it was dull and there was nothing on the front. However there are stickers on the inside. I think the music will just be rock or pop music as it has a lot of bright colours and individual illustrations. The band is Beck. And the name of the album is 'The Information'. The genre of music is alternative rock however the artwork and the design of the album cover does reflect this because of the use of loud colours and the illustrations.

Beck is actually the person that created his own album cover along with other people. I think he may of done this so he has his own participation in designing the album cover and to make it his own.
The target audience for this kind of music is young adults as they are most likely to like rock music and the artist himself is quite young.

The imagery and text does relate to the music because the individual illustrations on the other pages are quite sharp and colourful which makes it attractive the the fans and viewers. However the front cover does not really relate to the music as it only has a sticker of the name of the band and graph paper underneath which does not look quite attractive and related to alternative rock music.
The sort of images that have been used are quite abstract images.

The materials used to create this album cover was photographs, and what looks like to be photoshop to make it look more like a cartoon. The techniques used to create this album cover is by photographing and then putting it into photoshop and adding different shapes and patterns to it to really change what the original photograph looked like. The artist uses a lot of colours in the individual illustrations on the other pages to really catch the viewers eye however i think this should be done on the front cover as that is what people look at first. The album cover only uses one font which is a cubed 3D font and is the name of the band. This is done so people can easily spot who's album it is and it stands out quite clearly.