{"id":5242,"date":"2022-09-26T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewave.com\/blog\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2022-09-26T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:28:43","slug":"chompathon-creative-exercise-throwback-album-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayamode.com\/blog\/chompathon-creative-exercise-throwback-album-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Chompathon Creative Exercise: Throwback Album Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our previous design exercise, the Bluewave creative team played a game of Record Roulette<\/a>, creating album art with randomly-generated band names, album titles, and images. When sharing our final pieces, Art Director Martin suggested we keep the momentum going and do a Part 2 of this exercise. The plan: In a throwback to music stores and mail-order record clubs, create a poster advertising the albums created by all designers in the last exercise. The goal: experiment with design techniques, mix multiple design aesthetics into one piece, and, as always, have fun!<\/p>\n

Throwback Album Poster creative exercise:<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Create\/find album art. <\/strong>Create your own by doing the Record Roulette design exercise<\/a>. Alternately, grab the 12 most recently uploaded pieces from the Cover Art Archive<\/a>. Hopefully you\u2019ll get a variety of design styles and music genres.<\/li>\n
  2. Get inspired.<\/strong> Check out these vintage posters for mail-order record clubs<\/a>. Remember when music stores were a mall staple? Watch some Sam Goody commercials<\/a> from 1985 and walk through the last store closing in 2012.<\/li>\n
  3. Start designing.<\/strong> Combine your album art into one poster that showcases the breadth of your music selections. Try a new Photoshop or Illustrator technique while you’re at it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here are Bluewave\u2019s posters, in no particular order:<\/h2>\n

    \"70s\"Poster\"Poster\"Poster<\/p>\n

    Getting the juices flowing and thinking outside of the box is the name of the game with these Chompathons (read more about them here<\/a>). To get those cobwebs out. And I feel like we succeeded here, and may even touch on it again. What do you think, would you stop in to buy a record?<\/p>\n

    By: Ben Grefsrud | Art Director<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In our previous design exercise, the Bluewave creative team played a game of Record Roulette, creating album art with randomly-generated band names, album titles, and images. When sharing our final pieces, Art Director Martin suggested we keep the momentum going and do a Part 2 of this exercise. 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