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It has been a while since I’ve posted something from my Design Something Every Day project, so I thought I’d bring it back. This is a fake CD cover using the Random CD Cover Game protocol. For this one the random band title turned out to be “Warren High School”, the random album title was “be is the purpose in life.” I like that it’s very beatnik. The photo is High School Girl from the superb photographer Ru Kazu.

Design Something Everyday 10/365

Another “CD Cover Design Game” In hindsight it probably didn’t work as well as I would of liked, but blogs are for experimentation. Though I must admit I am rather fond of the typeface, Caflisch Script Pro. It is a very beautiful typeface based on Designer Max Caflisch’s handwriting! That is great pen control.

Caflisch Script is based on the handwriting of Max Caflisch, one of the foremost graphic designers of this century. Caflisch, a teacher of graphic arts for over three decades in Zurich, is author of several books on typography and designer of the 1952 Columna typeface.

Caflisch´s handwriting has a free flowing yet disciplined character, the result of years of practice and devotion to the calligraphic arts. Slimbach retained the subtleties and natural letter joins of Caflisch´s original handwriting while adapting it into a typographically sound and highly practical script typeface. – From MyFonts.com

Random CD Cover Design Game

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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.

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Source: Original photo by: Don Solo