Random CD Cover Design Game

Design Some­thing Every Day 8/ 365

I read about this along time ago on the Face­book Group: Cre­ate your Own CD Cover. I like to call it the “Ran­dom CD Cover Game.” By har­ness­ing the power of the inter­net, it is a way for design­ers to prac­tice design­ing some­thing everyday.

I like to imag­ine when play­ing this game that a client gives me his favorite photo and some text and then asks you to try to make some­thing inter­est­ing out of it. That’s also why the other name I give this game is the “Dif­fi­cult Client CD Cover Game.” Join in and let me see some of the things you’ve created!

Here are the rules:

1. Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “ran­dom” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first ran­dom wikipedia arti­cle you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to “Ran­dom quo­ta­tions” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four or five 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”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third pic­ture, no mat­ter what it is, will be your album cover. I actu­ally pre­fer to use compfight.com and search for images with a ran­dom word gen­er­ated from #1, just so I can find images cov­ered under the Cre­ative Com­mons Share & Share Alike license.
4. Use Pho­to­shop, Gimp or even Microsoft Paint to put it together, who cares what you use, so long as you have fun and learn.

Source: Orig­i­nal photo by: Don Solo

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