This is the cover artwork to "A Wizard, A True Star" by Todd Rundgren. Kevin Parker has said this album was particularly influential on the sound of "Lonerism"; the album my song is taken from. This therefore could be a very good album to take an artwork Idea from. The artwork consists of A main image of a face along side a number of psychedelic images. It is these images that I think would best work as part of my own design. I have a number of options to use here. These include the 3D effect logo in the bottom left corner, the woodblock children's toy used for the text, and the various stars/shapes dotted around the image.
This 3D effect shape found in the bottom left corner of the design is very interesting in the way that it works while also being quite eye catching. It also gives me a number of options in the way I could use it if I incorporated it into my design. I could either try and replicate the whole graphic; which may be problematic due to my limited design skills, or I could use just one of the six triangular shapes on its own; which I think would make a strong image. I like this idea as it would make a relatively easy to do and simple, bold design while effectively using my idea of taking a graphic from the cover of an influential album of the same genre. The only downside to this particular image is that it does not bare any particular reference or relativity to the song.
This use of children's woodblock toy for the font of the album text is very interesting. It is quite an original design and the theme of childhood and innocence is quite a common theme in psychedelic art and culture so it would be quite appropriate to use in my own design. The theme of childhood could also fit in to my whole "backwards" idea as it could be scene as the idea of going backwards in time back to childhood. However the problem of using this idea in my design is that I wanted to use one single graphic, so I would either have to break my own design plans and use a number of these woodblocks, or write all the text of the design on one single woodblock; which I'm not sure would look as effective.
The final part of this design that I have considered using in my own design is the numerous star/pattern images used throughout the design. While these images are good single images that could be used. I feel that many of them are too complex for the sort of design I was thinking of and probably not as noticeable as part of this album artwork. However they do fit the psychedelic theme of the song and are strong images so i may experiment with recreating some of these.
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