Album Cover Ideas

This album cover is inspired from a scene in "Inception" where gravity shifts yet everybody is unaffected. Recently, I managed to photograph something similar with objects on a desk so I have several ideas of how to do this practically with real people. Should we be unable to get our band to lean against something and remain composed then we use a fan to blow them from the side or invisible thread to pull their clothes sideways. What makes this a good album cover is that it plays on the convention of showing the band but has them in a quirky position.

After hearing Claire's idea for a bar code on our album cover, I combined that concept with the knowledge of how printing works or the basic principle that we see a clearer image from a distance. Here it would be possible to read the name of the album and see the band in between the black bars on a printed album cover from a distance or as a resized digital image in Spotify or iTunes, etc.

One idea I had was to have all four band members holding up a sign saying the name of the band, for some symmetry, I think each arm should come a corner of the album cover.

Inspired from a magazine cover (see right) advertising Portal 2, I thought it would be a cool concept to create the illusion of transparency in the album cover. The front would be of the backs of the band members pointing up at the album name. The back would be of the fronts of the band members pointing up at the track list. Again, this works by subverting the convention of showing the band's friendly faces on the front.