Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Creating a CD Cover - With Limits on Creativity

The trick is you have to create it from 'found' materials, again following a set of rules.
1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover.


Name Generated by 'WikiPedia': Rock Rabbit
Album Title Generated by 'QuotationsPage': Don't Fool With It

Final Product:


The decisions that were made for me was the Name of the Artist, Name of the Album and the Image used for the CD Cover. The only thing that I did have freedom with was the Font Style, Size, Colour and the Positioning of the Text.

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