Secret 7: The Brief

This exciting Secret 7 brief asks all creatives to get involved and design a 7" album cover for one of the 7 tracks released via the competition website. This competition appeals to everyone and provides a platform for people to create a certain type of visual artwork and product design that they wouldn't usually be able to. The concept behind the brief really inspires and motivates the entrants to create a artwork that pushes the boundaries of what album artwork is, asking everyone who wants to to get involved and submit a design, to step away from the obvious and produce something amazing (but not revealing) of the track it is for.

In approaching this brief my aim is to do just that - step away from the obvious both visually and in my creative approach to each track, hopefully achieving some really interesting visual responses that grab the attention of the judges and make it into the exhibition. I really want to learn some new skills throughout this module and feel that this brief could provide me with the means to do that as well as indulge in a real interest of mine - music and album artwork.


First quick ideas:

•Paper cut intricate designs that link to each secret 7 track into my marbled pieces...maybe keep the original designs intact for future use. So scan chosen marbled patterns in, edit in Photoshop and then print out/cut into and layer like this:

Or keep most of marbled design and then have specific interwoven areas cut out ...

Layers of another cut out design (maybe out of another single sheet of marbling-cut out intricately then layered and stuck onto another design beneath. Cuts on top act like a window showing the design beneath:

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Sound wave art

For each song (7) listen to it in its different frequencies to actually visualise the highs and lows, tones, base and treble etc

Illustrate this in some way. Make each sound wave subtle but individual to each specific song - each will be unique

Incorporate the other elements the sound helps to visualise and inspire 

Marbling could weave in and out of the sound wave?

The sound wave is the marbling?

-Draw a line with different coloured paints in the corn flower syrup. One long line from side to side or up and down or right to left , corner to corner etc then use a toothpick/matchstick to flick the paint and draw out the sine wave line from the colours line outwards. This should cause each 'flick' / line drawn edge causes the paint to splatter and swirl outwards

-Lay treated paper on top and print this

Could later this effect into of usual marble patterns beneath the sine wave

-could draw a line of red directly next to a line of blue (like the anaglyph artwork) in the clean corn flower mixture and get a comb with a matchstick attached at each end (about 10cm apart for instance) then stick in the ink lines and draw the sine wave. The two matchsticks at each end will effectively draw 2 lines at once in each colour-1 red, 1 blue  creating the "double" / "3D " effect

-could as more match sticks to create more lines - doubled, tripled, quadrupled etc - could even add more colours so each matchstick is in a different colour - bright cmyk colours - red, yellow, green, blue etc and keep doubling up with more matchsticks

• print all of the above on treated paper

Anaglyph artwork drawn in the ways above(not just sign waves)

Anaglyph artwork for each or at least use bright CMYK colour palette 

Typography cut out of sleeve cover. Song lyrics? Laid out like this:

Sleeve is like a book. So the page opens and inside is a transparent sleeve jacket. Front of cover page that opens can be cut into or layout like a folded "net" for the customer to make.

Could make a vinyl needle?