CD cover design - sublime

Sublime was a ska punk style band, which grew to fame in mid 90’s. As one of the famous punk bands, their music often involved confrontational frankness and commentaries on social and political issues.

The Greatest Hit album is a collection of the band’s most popular songs. The CD design is composed of two main colors - red and light green.  A photo of the band framed with red and with the band’s name in the middle is placed in the front of the cover, with shadow on the green background, makes it a 3-D effect, in order to emphasize on the band’s name and album’s name.  However, the green background with irregular texture also has it’s thoughtful meaning to express the band’s spirit of freedom and complicated thinking to the issues of human being.  If you look at the CD’s back, you will find it is trying to simulate the look of a zip log labeled with the band name and album name and holding all the songs at the bottom. This is a very impressive design. It is trying to hint that this album is a full collection of the band’s best songs while the songs are played in a leisure and laid-back way. And when you open the CD case, you see the zip log is opened and the songs are dropping out, which means now we have let the songs out and you are able to listen.

Overall, I do like this design of the CD album, I would say the design is just as sophysticated as the band itself,  relaxing and laid-back look outside and deep thoughts inside.

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