I have recently collaborated with music production student/DJ 'Bill Motion' aka Ollie Girvan on an album cover for his final major degree project at University of Westminster. The brief was to create an image that depicted a futuristic London, which was still very much in the process of construction. My initial methodology in creating a design was to source images via the internet, as London was the main subject of the work the images consisted of London landmarks, construction sites, then obscure film stills were identified that would help to produce the futuristic element. Once a number of images had been sourced I chose my base image and then layered up to eight further images. Using PhotoShop I alter opacity, colour saturation, colour definition, brightness and contrast until I achieve the desired result.
Initially I produced several designs, see below:
Although Ollie liked the concept, he suggested that he wanted more definition and colour, from this I retained elements of the designs, but sourced more imagery and decided to experiment further with PhotoShop, pushing the possibilities of what could be achieved. The following are a set of revised images:
I was really pleased with the results, but still felt that further definition was required, so adjusted further:
The Final image is the design that Ollie felt best visually illustrated his music, it then just required his logo.
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