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

Design Something Everyday: Day 5: Bali Hai

I’ve been work­ing on stuff every­day, but I haven’t been post­ing daily, so I’ve got a bunch of stuff to put up.

The first of these is a dig­i­tal doo­dle of a song from the won­der­ful 1949 Rogers and Ham­mer­stein play South Pacific, Bali Hai. I was inspired by the pro­duc­tion I saw last week­end at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue The­atre. Of course, I was famil­iar with the song and the play mostly through the 1958 film ver­sion, but see­ing it live was a thrill. Bali Hai is a myth­i­cal and mys­ti­cal island that rep­re­sents an unat­tain­able par­adise. That image of a hazy dou­ble vol­cano island has formed a core of the Tiki and Poly­ne­sian Pop mythos.

The song is a clas­sic in Amer­i­can Musi­cal the­ater, and for me the best part is very influ­en­tial in the world of Tiki and P0lynesian Pop Cul­ture. Below you can see the won­der­ful scene and lis­ten to the song Bali Hai from the 1958 film, do you hear it? It calls to you..

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

Links:

• Bali Hai: Myth­i­cal and mys­ti­cal island, if you lis­ten it will call to you…
• 5th Avenue Theatre
• Rogers & Hammerstein
• South Pacific (1958 film)
• Tales of the South Pacific, the 1946 Pulitzer Prize win­ning  book by James Mich­ener, source for the film and musi­cal productions.