Inspiration for Covers

Psychedelic conventions are surrealist and contain a lot of kaleidoscopic imagery and so on and so forth. Other influences, as noted through wikipedia, seem to be the Dada and Pop Art movements. So in terms of the design I think incorporating real images - as in Dadaism - would be something to definitely consider in making my album cover. Additionally, I should find some vibrant or saturated colours to really pop out and grab the attention of any possible consumers.

Thee Oh Sees seem to have a lot of illustration in their album covers, notably their covers do not really relate to the album's title or really the content of the album. The illustrations are likely something I can do, as I have in the past for Jack's album covers, but I do not feel as though much should be used in this design. I've noticed that one of Thee Oh Sees' albums contains a lot of eye imagery, something I should definitely consider integrating within my own designs.

Ty Segall is somewhat psychedelic in his album covers but notably mainly uses coloured photography within his work. One of the most notable things I've noticed with his work and that of Thee Oh Sees is how they haven't included the title of the album really on their covers but I think it is needed on Jack's work as to just reinforce his identity and the overall theme within his release. Another point to raise is Ty Segall's inclusion of a white square that acts as the border for his Melted album on the left below, this is something which I could certainly feature in my final product in order to just accentuate the imagery I use.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are all drawn and painted too. Their designs are a little too intense for me to keep up with and so I think that producing some work influenced by them would be difficult. However, I have found a website which I believe is run by their artist and in THIS LINK the design shows is again complex; one thing I could glean from the website I linked is how cool the vinyl disc looks, I might actually have to take note in this regard and possibly design the inner cover like this because I just really like the marbled dotted effect. Also the band include their name more so along the top of their album work but I think my text will be the other way around: the title on the top and the artist at the bottom. Essentially this means the 'Weird Sky' is located at the top of the album which fits with the connotations of the word "sky".

In looking into album covers I believe that assessing two of the most iconic psychedelic albums would be great - especially since Jack has cited on of the artists as an influence. The Beatles did Sgt Pepper and Pink Floyd did Darkside of the Moon, these two album covers being at opposite ends of the psychedelic spectrum. On the one part, Sgt Pepper includes an immense amount of colour, coordinating a photograph such as that would be difficult plus Jack is a one man band essentially which means using his image repeatedly would require a lot of editing. I do appreciate the vibrancy though, which is definitely something to consider. In contrast, Pink Floyd's album is extremely minimalist, much like their other album the Wall; I would like to note that the simplicity allows for the rainbow to pop out but also this abstract imagery shows that I don't need to oversaturate the cover with assets and images in order for it to be effective. What I will likely do is adopt some aspect from each album: the colour and vibrancy of the Beatles with the simplistic design and composition from Pink Floyd.

Seems to be a focus on specific colours complimenting or highly contrasting for visual effect, see this web post about it. This post mentions Victor Moscoso who seems to use opposite colours such as blue and orange - which are opposite one another in the colour wheel. This means that using green and pink, which I've discussed as a palette before, would certainly coincide with psychedelic convention and is certainly something to consider.