Responsive - Secret 7" Contextual references

Some album artwork that I looked at before getting started on my Secret 7" briefs. While I want to create original designs for this brief, I also want to be inspired by relevant album covers in order to draw inspiration from them, but also know where I need to go in my own direction.

- First page of Motown records show the bold colours and shapes that is associated with the genre
- Second page of Chemical Brothers album art shows the use of quite surreal imagery achieved through collage and juxtaposition. A lot of it feels quite 'dreamy'.

These two pages contain contextual references directly relevant to what I will do - album art for a Chemical Brothers song and a Motown song. The rest are more broad sources of inspiration

- Sebastien Tellier's album artworks are highly illustrative and I really like the simple aesthetic of line work and bold colour, or sometimes simply line work and minimal design around it. The artwork with the piggy is very different, but shows the potential for illustrated album artwork without text, which is what Secret 7" demands for their entries.

- The last page shows illustrated album covers which feature prominent images and I find quite inspiring in terms of the potential and range of artwork that could be featured on albums - no one type of illustration works for album artwork. The last image for the album "After Dark" features various artist names on them, which isn't something I'll be able to replicate, but I feel that as a design, it is strong through the corner artwork and colour choices.