Image & Typography
Just like the other album cover's I've seen that have caught my eye, this album has a single image within the center (this time of a disintegrating apple) along with the name of the artist and the album. What interested me about this though is that they've got so much space on the cover to put the title and image and whatnot, a move that was no doubt done to attract the audience with the image itself and instantly get them reading the name of the band and the album name.
Layout
The layout of the album is fairly simple. The majority of the content (image and text) is in the center, and the only other thing besides the orange (?) background is the dirty white outline to the background that helps to frame the content on the cover very nicely. On all the album covers I've looked at so far, I definitely prefer those that have framed themselves properly (unlike 'Boys Like Girls', which just seemed ruined by the background to me), and this does it pretty well.
Colour Scheme
This cover seems to have gone for the minimalistic route when it comes to a colour scheme, in that there are only three colours on the entire thing: dirty white, for the border and band name; orange (?), for the album name and background; and red, for the picture of the apple.
The fact that they decided to use a selection of colours that makes it all easy on the eyes was great and all, but the most interesting thing about it in my opinion is the choice of colour for the apple. The two out of the three colours on the cover are shared amongst two different elements each, but the red is saved specifically for the image and is the one that stands out the most, being fairly dark in comparison to the others. It helps massively with drawing the customer's attention to it, and thus the band name and album name.
I don't often have much appreciation for colour, being colour blind, but this has stood out as one of the nicest albums to look at if only for it's use of colour.
The fact that they decided to use a selection of colours that makes it all easy on the eyes was great and all, but the most interesting thing about it in my opinion is the choice of colour for the apple. The two out of the three colours on the cover are shared amongst two different elements each, but the red is saved specifically for the image and is the one that stands out the most, being fairly dark in comparison to the others. It helps massively with drawing the customer's attention to it, and thus the band name and album name.
I don't often have much appreciation for colour, being colour blind, but this has stood out as one of the nicest albums to look at if only for it's use of colour.
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