Album Cover
The redesign of the 1996 album Yourself or Someone Like You by Matchbox Twenty re-introduces the emotional, grungy rock of the songs in this album. The paper collage over the acetone-transferred grid conveys duality, with the theme being order and chaos. The grid overlaps some of the triangles to represent the two themes colliding. The album features twelve songs covering subjects of love, depression, loneliness, and abuse. This design is meant to depict these themes with the black and red paper collage, broken to represent the chaotic moments of the album, and the acetone-transferred grid underneath, representing order. The labels are simple, but still follow the theme of duality with the different colors of the two labels. The album design and the two labels infer the emotional rollercoaster of the songs on this album cover.
My first sketch was centered around the duality theme of order and chaos. This album is directed towards the concepts of depression and the struggle that someone has with the world around them. These ideas inspired my this sketch with the two themes colliding.
Paper Collage
Physical Iterations
Acetone ink transfer
Stamping
The labels were designed intentionally to be simple, while also staying on theme duality. The contrasting colors play into the theme of duality I chose to convey while also staying on theme with the colors represented on the front and back of the cover.
Front & Side A
Back & Side B
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