LO5: Imagery

To promote my music, I need some imagery to accompany it. I’ve had a few concepts for cover arts so far, each of which use the same font as that used in my last EP. I want to use the VHS tape-style font as it is the most prominent Vin McLo iconography I have so far.

I think idea 1 is the most stylish. However, there’s very little meaning to it. It’s just an interesting looking mash-up of colours.

With my EP being focussed around Sutton-in-Ashfield, I thought it would be a good idea to include some Sutton iconography in my art. And so, idea 2 contains the star-like pattern seen underneath Sutton’s iconic sundial (the largest sundial in Europe). Idea 3 contains the sundial itself and is a lot more minimalistic. Since I’m going to be releasing an EP with a small number of tracks, I though a minimalistic cover art could be quite fitting.

I digitally recreated images of the star and sundial myself. However, I fear that I might one day be faced with some copyright implications if I use these images with for my EP. I read that pictures of sculptures that are permanently situated in public areas are exempt from copyright laws (CJAM, 2016). However, just to be safe, I’ve sent an email to the Ashfield District Council to find out more information on the subject. Hopefully they’ll get back to me soon. If not then I’ll either have to get more information from another source or just not use images of the Sutton sundial at all. If I do get a response soon then I’ll be sure to ask them about ideas on further promoting my music.

As well as designing cover are, I have two EP title ideas: Odyssey (since this is a musical journey through ideas of Sutton) and Sun_Sutt (a SMS-language title derived from the nickname ‘Sunny Sutton’).

References

CJAM (2016) Copyright and Taking Pictures of Sculptures. Available from: http://cjam.info/en/copyright-and-taking-pictures-of-sculptures-2/