After researching front cover designs, I’m moving onto back cover designs of albums as this is usually the next part the customer would initially look at as they automatically flip over from the front cover. Similarly to front covers there are conventions followed on album back covers, here are some examples of the features that are generally found on back covers;
- Name of artist/band at the very top
- Name of album beneath the name of the artist/band
- Lists of song titles featured on the album, often with numbers displayed next to the track
- Barcode in the bottom right hand corner
- Name of the record company
- Copyright and year
- Art work or images that are related to the front cover and artist/band
- Who owns the copyrighted material
- Who the album has been distributed by
As mentioned in my research for album front covers, these
specific conventions can and are being broken in the music industry. Specific artists
especially those associated with the indie genre are breaking these rules and
conventions as it is a way of them expressing themselves as an artist and
testing society.
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