ANALYSING; an album cover

The Cd cover below is advertising one of Kano's album (Kano is a grime artist,from the UK).The album goes by the name 'METHOD TO THE MADNESS'. when we stair at the cover we notice that the images on the album relates to the title of the album.

FONT: the font used on this album is very simple.we notice the simple text on the artist name"KANO". The font used on the album name is an urban styled font and the designer used this kind of text/font to appeal to his target audience.

BACKGROUND IMAGE: The image on the album cover is very direct. The image used on the cover is a close up of the artist face,as we look a at the album cover we are drawn straight into the eyes of the artist, the envy and mad emotion in the artist eyes connotes to the album title 'METHOD TO THE MADNESS'.Further more the background has the contrast between evening and night this also connotes to the theme method to the madness.

COLOR: The series of colors used on this album cover are BOLD colors and the colors have been multiplied with the images, but the RED on the cover connotes danger, which also draws the audience attention to the albums name. The designer used white on the artist name, this separates the artist name from the cover,the designer does this to make the artist name stand out.

IMAGES:The images used on the cover shows the environment and character of the artist
images such as speaker and music instruments show the artist life and what he is about,but the people in the hoods and the person sat down with his head in his hands connotes to the album title method to the madness, also the way the image are crowded together illustrates the album title.