Album Cover Analysis 'The Mouse And The Mask' by Danger Doom

Image & Typography

The album is called 'The Mouse and the Mask', but rather than having the title on the cover they've opted to have the image itself be the title - a mouse in a mask/helmet, resembling a skull and crossed bones. What works well about this is that the image itself is very interesting, and the main point of focus on the cover, and it's actually fairly simple - it's just a mouse in a mask with a paper-like background and the artist's name. The font used for the title also helps to make it seem like it's printed onto the background, with a traditional stencil-like font used.

Nothing complex needed, it works great already.

Layout

Having the image centered and being the main point of focus is appropriate, because of it being the replacement of a title, and the artist's name laying just over the image works well to let people know who the artist is. The edges of the paper-esque background also help the frame the whole thing rather than letting it trail off, which helps to make it seem a lot more professional.

Colour Scheme

The colours used help to seperate the title and artwork from the background fairly well, with the background itself having a beige-ish look to it that makes it obvious it's meant to be a piece of paper or some other similar material, and the texture of that background seems to be over the image and title as well (if faintly) to make them all seem like a single piece of paper as opposed to images placed on top of each other. None of the colours really stand out, but the fact that all of them don't stand out it a very flat - in a good way - image to look at that's easy on the eyes.