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Furiouser and Spuriourser

Album Cover

Designer: Iris Pham

Dates: March 11 to March 27, 2025

Deliverables: Vinyl Album Cover

Materials: Printed Mockup and mounted on Foamboard

Instructor: Judy Armstrong

Overview

For this project, I am tasked to design an album cover for Furiouser and Spuriouser. It is a musical piece that delves into a world of unsettled logic and shifting moods, where musical structure unravels in unexpected and often disorienting ways. My main inspiration is Movement Six - The Tea Party, since it has the chaos, craziness, and reverse lullaby quality. The cover uses an RGB colour palette to portray the piece's setting, which is inside the monitors. The texts are the lyrics taken from Movement Six, layered with lines that represent distorted musical staff but also the screen static lines, depicting the chaotic and dramatic atmosphere of the piece.

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Album Sleeve with Vinyl Mockup

Process and Finished Prototype

Reflection

At the start, I was caught up in the rabbit hole concept, and that gave me some trouble in effectively communicating the theme and visualizing the sound. Therefore, I took a step back and went to listen to the piece. When I listened to Movement Six - The Tea Party, I thought it perfectly summarized the content of this music piece. Using it as inspiration helped me to approach this project differently, and I chose a typographic solution to illustrate the 'spoken words' quality of this piece. I am happy with this design as it does not follow my usual way of designing for a project, which fits well with this piece's unconventional and chaotic nature.

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