Design Something Every Day 21/365

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

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.

Design Some­thing Every­day 8/ 365

Source: Orig­i­nal photo by: Don Solo