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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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