Whilst listening to music on iTunes a few days ago, I started thinking about its 'Genius' feature, which enables you to create a playlist containing similar songs to a chosen track, all from your music library. I decided to try this out for our song choice, Howl by Florence and the Machine, and changed the playlist view to show the songs' album covers in a grid. I thought this would be a good yet quick and easy way of getting inspiration for the designing of our digipak, as the album cover will be an important aspect of it. Below is a screenshot of the covers that came up. It was also nice to see the cover art of albums from artists such as Bat For Lashes and Imogen Heap come up, as we have been drawing a lot of inspiration from them.
In addition, I have been using music streaming and recommendation site last.fm for quite a few years now. One of the features it has is to show similar artists if you go on a certain artist's page. This is generated automatically, based on the listening habits of the site's users, as explained in the site's FAQs: "If a lot of users listen to Artist X, but also Artist Y and Z - Y and Z artists will become similar to X." Because of this, I visited Florence and the Machine's artist page and took a look at the artists that came up (which you can see here). From this list, I have compiled several of the artists' album covers into a slideshow in order to provide possible inspiration for our own cover art.
Above albums in order of appearance:
- Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
- Ellie Goulding - Lights
- Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
- I Blame Coco - The Constant
- Lykke Li - Youth Novels
- Clare Maguire - Light After Dark
- Ellie Goulding - Lights (US Version)
- Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (Special Edition)
- Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You
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