2 posts tagged “design”

I've endured enough CD cover design meetings to know just how angst-filled and generally traumatic they can be.

The following is just a creative game, but boy would it make life easy to adopt a method like this! As the friend who gave me the link says, he can't imagine the following steps ever yielding an implausible cover design.

1 - Go to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article title that you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to mix it all up. Post it.

My efforts:

The quotes are from Sir Winston Churchill (He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire), and Blaise Pascal (All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room).

EDIT: credit where credit's due - it appears the original source for this was the discussion board on Mess+Noise, an Australian music site.