Research for ancilliary tasks

The first groups album artwork we will show is from TLC- another R&B group from the 90's with similar music to Salt N Pepa.

Both of these covers show us a good use of colours that work will for the cover, and is similar to something that we may want to use for our album covers.

Then we have a screenshot of their official website-

None of us particularly like this website design, however we believe that the colour schemes work well to fit in with 90's theme that is trying to be achieved.

The next album work we looked at was from Kid N play:

 We liked this as it portrayed the cartoon like 80's look that we have considered, also even though it is a fairly old album cover you get a feeling of modernity from it. And again the colours compliment each other well in creating the 90's feeling.

Then their websites, both Chris Browns and Tygas:

Both of these websites dont fit in to our criteria because they are both to modern to get a 90's vibe from.

Next there is De La Soul, and here are some examples of their album artwork:

Again these are great examples to relate to the album artwork that we want to create. Both of these have colour schemes that conform to the 90's idea, it seems that the use of red green and pink seem to work well together aswell.

And then for their website:

Again this website doesnt seem to fit in with our theme of the 90's so wouldnt really be able to relate to their website, however their album artwork is perfect in relation to what we are looking to create ourselves.

Album artwork from boyz II Mean is show here:

Their album covers does not link to the rest that we have shown, but these two show quite a nice white and black theme, which can be seen within a fair few R&B groups album artwork. It shows as a nice alternative for the coloured themes.

Then their website also correlates with this theme:

Again this them does work well and if we cant achieve the coloured theming succesfully we may resort to using black and white to give it a simple yet effective digipak

and finally we looked at the digipak for Mika, firstly the covers

We especially liked all of these as we feel they had the best use of coulors and a cartoonish feeling that we feel works really well. We would like to achieve something similar to one of these for our final album artwork. The colours and images in all of these work really well together and help to entice and audience.

Then their website:

Again this website is not we would like to use due to the dark colours which do not correlate with our ideas and the site is also quite boring and doesnt have much on it.

Overall we believe that we would like to recreate something similar to the colourful cartoon like album covers that have been shown here. This is cause we feel like this will work well with the song that we are doing and it also will fit into our 90's theme that we are trying to achieve. Also we want our website to be vibrantly coloured and something that grabs the audiences attention. As a group we feel that it would be good if there was some sort of link between the album cover and the website, whether its through colours or images, just something that links them together, as we feel that would look professional.

Thank you to Tyler for the blogpost