Kid Cudi
The Journey to the Moon

T Shirt concepts

Gif

Cover

Earth Wind and Fire

This are moving along The Journey to the Moon

Kid Cudi
The Journey to the Moon

The music to go with the album:
The music that would be on the album I thought would be from his first album Man on the Moon: The End of Day. After listening and reading the lyrics I realized how dark this album was. Not what I was going for. I want an uplifting feel that suggest a journey.
other option
The music that will accompany the album is unknown at this moment. Might be a collection of songs from him that I feel reflect uplifting and suggest journey.
or
I'll create track names from scratch to represent the uplifting and suggestion of journey.

Cover + Back cover

CD CONCEPTS

The CD is a ticket to the journey:

The CD

The Journey to the Moon

Kid Cudi
The Journey to the Moon
or
Man's Last Mission: The Journey to the Moon

"The Mission" Statement:

-In the pursuit of happiness you must overcome your fears for you only have one life to live.

-The Journey to the Moon represents the journey in all of us, the pursuit of happiness. 


key words/phrase:
love
be you
do what makes you happy
you'll be okay
show em what your made of
terminate the hate spread the positive
pursuit of happiness
say goodbye to fear
you can still succeed when everything else is falling

Journey to the Moon

KID CUDI

Package Design

*Gif. digital cover

Limited Edition CD design

Vinyl 

Limited Edition Shirt

Limited Edition Number Poster

The above Gif. was me trying to create a seamless image with little action so not to take away from the image itself. 

What did I learn?

 I learned that this is going to be a hard to make this look seamless/smooth. 

To make the frames look smooth from frame to frame from start to finish and finish to start I need to create a story board. I traced the first image and started moving the drawing little by little frame one to two to three to four to five and to six but to end six that will translation into frame one, smooth.

THOUGHTS OF TODAY

The way music is being put out into the world is drastically different today than it was in the early 2000s. The introduction of the internet opened the industry wide open. 

People don't buy music that much today instead

online listen for free on youtube...pandora...

or

Paid music subscription

or 

some music released for free by the artist

or

download illegally

or

Vinyl is hot right now

or

CD not so much

What are people using to listen to music?

Mostly

Phone

Ipod

Computer

Radio

Kinda

Vinyl

Radio subscriptions

Not so much

CD

Visualizing the music

Artist Kid Cudi
Album Journey to the Moon

Artist G Mazy
Album When It's Dark Out

party
himself
girls/models
confidence
he has high standards
"...I want it all..."
Life is a dice game you have to take risks
"...a lot of y'all would call it quits..."
Raw
"...mind of a perfectionist..."
"...pussy my favorite vice.."
"imagine it, put the hours in and stayed passionate. Wasn't blowing money, was stacking it. Figured what I wanted in life and practiced it"
His hunger for success
Need time to reflect
"what if the game didn't care that I was white..."
"what if pac wasn't dead..."

next step:
Materials different fabrics used in cover or textures
Embossment
Shapes

Music Design

Musician:     Kid Cudi

Album title:  The Journey To The Moon

Music description: 
Drugs
Depression
Night / darkness
Journey / Adventure
Music escapes from reality from earth
Chasing peace
Running away from his demons but seems like his only friend
Confused if drugs are his friend or demons
Lyrics are dark but sounds uplifting
Alone

Design A:

Cover...
Some of kid cudi's music is very cinematic. 
References toward space and the moon are apart of his music. 

Concept: 
To create an abstract and cinematic powerful feel of take off.

typography added

Musician: Nas
Album: Illmatic

Music description: 
stories about the blocks Queen's
crime
guns
describes life
cop
feels his emotion (real)
born to be on a mic (they need to share their struggles)
"the world is yours"
talks about guns, drugs, cops as it happens in front of him
reflection
intelligent
feels like the streets
talks about the streets but also intellectual conversations that happen in the streets
jail system is failing
public school system failing the youth
sharing his thoughts with people to help

Design A:
Image of a "stone" that is failing apart at the bottom but prospering on the top.
Symbolic for getting out of the struggle.

Package Design

Cover

Backcover

Took a template online to place design on cover

Cover

CD

Music that inspired the design

Earth Wind and Fire
Inspiration for the design (Samples)

   Earth Wind and Fire - Shinning Star

   Earth Wind and Fire - That's The Way of the World

   Earth Wind and Fire - September

To do:
  Draw cover and back cover
Vinyl:
  Decide on the color of the vinyl...
  Design the record sticker
CD:
  Formate cover so text is readable
  Design cover sleeve
  Design spine
  Design the image behind the CD

Kid Cudi
Inspiration for the design (Samples)

   Kid Cudi - Cleveland Is The Reason

   Kid Cudi - The Resurrection Of Scott Mescudi 

   Kid Cudi - Unfuckwittable

To do:
  Finish drawings
Vinyl:
  Decide on the color of the vinyl...
  Design the record sticker
CD:
  Design cover sleeve
  Continue designing back cover and image behind CD

Next step:
  Get color pencils and or paint
  Get CD cases
  Decide on the next music to create artwork for...

Earth Wind And Fire_album cover

Their logo contains an Egyptian falcon god known as Horus.

Earth Wind And Fire logo



Album cover for
Now, Then & Forever


Horus the ancient Egyptians' national patron god. He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent, or a red and white crown, as a symbol of kingship over the entire kingdom of Egypt. Their music spans multiple genres is R&B, soul, jazz, pop, rock, funk, disco, latin, African and gospel.

Earth Wind and Fire sound has contrasting vocals over an array of instruments. The sound is strong, passionate but fun.

If their music could be a season it would be summer.

My design for an Earth Wind and Fire album below

album artwork + research

The Beatles _ Strawberry Fields Forever

My First Step

First Step

Gather names of designers who are creating the best album covers

What is their background history?

Gather books and covers.