Up Yer Sleeve is a project being run by a third-year BA Hons graphic design student at Leeds college of art. The brief is to create a 7-inch vinyl sleeve for a given song, the design of the cover can be as subjective as possible or be very literal to the song. This leaves the brief open to interpretation and depending on the song to decide which style to go for, the song is given on request, to enter the brief I must email the project runner and request a song, each song is by an artist who has died or from a band who has had a member die, this bleak concept behind the project can be seen as a positive element, the artwork can be a celebration of them, though the open ended-ness nature of the brief.
Following emailing the project runner, I received the song 'Gone with the wind' by the band Architects. The song was released on their seventh studio album from 2016. Architects are a British metalcore band from Brighton, the band have been active since 2004 and have released seven hours to date. The song which I have been given to produce album artwork for is from the band's last album to feature guitarist and primary songwriter Tom Searle before he died of cancer on august 20, 2016.
The project seems like a good opportunity to explore more subjective graphic design, like last year's Secret 7 project which was a similar project aesthetic, having entered last year's project, one of the reflections which were found in the submitted pieces last year, was that they were not as subjective as could have been, little experimentation with design could be seen, to make sure this does not happen again in 'Up Yer Sleeve' I will experiment with a range of methods and techniques to find a creative, subjective solution.
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