For the first major project of my second school year at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, we were commissioned to design an album cover. The album cover had to be made for an existing band or artist of my own choice. In this you were completely free in which artist or how you were going to shape this
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2021
After making the choice to go with the world famous but mysterious artist Sia, I started researching what kind of album this would be.
Sia herself has been in the music world for a long time, but has never actually had a ‘best of’ album, I wanted to change that with this album ’the eye of time’. Here are all Sia classics from Titanium to Chandelier.
The album cover has a deep black color to show the darkness of sia herself’s past, but between the silhouette you can already see some more color shining through. It contains the same font that sia uses several times in her own house style.
The thoughts behind the design of this album are very close to the life of Sia herself, as she lost her boyfriend in a fatal car accident early in her music career and then fell into a depression where she often reached for the bottle. But after all these years she finally wanted to change this, so she continued making music again.
Until her release ‘Chandelier’. This was Sia’s breakthrough and with it an end to the dark tunnel she walked into. The message I want to give with this album is that ’there will always be light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark it may seem in the end’.
