Graphic Design
Music Album Designs
Album covers I designed for Lady Gaga and Pixar’s movie, Soul. Part of Adobe’s design challenge.
Tools
Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop
Duration
3 days
Date
July 2020
Jan 2021
1. Lady Gaga X Adobe
Concept
Lady Gaga believes music is made of “healing sine waves”, so I tried to portray music as sweet sine waves using candies shaped like music notes. The mouth with the glossy lips represents the sexy side of Lady Gaga. Lastly, I went with a purple and pink colour scheme for a girl power look.
2. Pixar Soul X Adobe
Concept
The album art portrays the movie’s existential and musical themes. The front cover is a galaxy of stars and music notes that resembles a vinyl disc. When you pull out the disc, there’s a small surprise inside - a cute illustration of a soul that likes to draw, answering the contest prompt - “what makes you, you?”
Process
started by sketching out some ideas on paper and browsed other contestants’ work to make sure my concept is as fresh as possible.
I picked the most original design and created variations of it on Illustrator or Photoshop. I also tested out different colour schemes.
Once I was happy with a variation, I looked for small things to fix so the piece looked more polished. Lastly, I made mockups using the final album art.
