I'm not much of a pencil 'n' paper artist but I do like to dabble with photo-manipulation a bit (witness my efforts in the recent logo contest on this very site). Having come across Mike's New Worlds Fair album (with the Deep Fix) here recently, I decided - as a piece of fun - to make up my own cover and booklet for a hypothetical CD.
My original version simply featured the lyrics against a blank background, but while there was a minimalist purity about that, it did look a little dull, so I went back to the drawing board and thought again.
What I've ended up with is a 12-page lyric booklet with one or more sets of lyrics per page (bar the front cover) and an image that (hopefully) strikes a chord with the song. In some cases I've put 2 songs to a page but still only used one image to represent the 'main' lyric. In the case of 'Ferris Wheel' there is no lyric (just the title, composer and duration) since the actual lyrics are hard to make out, and I thought it better to leave the lyrics out entirely than include them un-finished.
Most of the images were lifted straight from their source (albeit with the usual cropping/resizing), but some had the colour dropped out, one had a 'hand-painted' colour effect added, and the final page was a composite (by me) of two existing images to produce a rather striking result (I hope).
Because the booklet is not designed for commerical (or even private) use, I've reduced the images by 50% so I wouldn't recommend anyone trying to print them out, as the lyrics would be unreadable. ;) Each image has been uploaded to the Image Gallery - hope that's alright guys.
All images used in this project have been sourced from the Internet and their normal copyright applies (ie all use by me is wholly unauthorised) but as I say, this project was done purely for my own devices. The lyrics were sourced from DeepFixer's posts in the Rock and Roll board - thanks DF.
I'd love to hear what people think of them - did the images work for you? were they appropriate to the theme of the song? - so without further ado, let's go:
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Links edited to point to the individual Gallery pages (where you can read my comments on each page) rather than the .jpgs.
Enjoy. :)
Cheers,
David
My original version simply featured the lyrics against a blank background, but while there was a minimalist purity about that, it did look a little dull, so I went back to the drawing board and thought again.
What I've ended up with is a 12-page lyric booklet with one or more sets of lyrics per page (bar the front cover) and an image that (hopefully) strikes a chord with the song. In some cases I've put 2 songs to a page but still only used one image to represent the 'main' lyric. In the case of 'Ferris Wheel' there is no lyric (just the title, composer and duration) since the actual lyrics are hard to make out, and I thought it better to leave the lyrics out entirely than include them un-finished.
Most of the images were lifted straight from their source (albeit with the usual cropping/resizing), but some had the colour dropped out, one had a 'hand-painted' colour effect added, and the final page was a composite (by me) of two existing images to produce a rather striking result (I hope).
Because the booklet is not designed for commerical (or even private) use, I've reduced the images by 50% so I wouldn't recommend anyone trying to print them out, as the lyrics would be unreadable. ;) Each image has been uploaded to the Image Gallery - hope that's alright guys.
All images used in this project have been sourced from the Internet and their normal copyright applies (ie all use by me is wholly unauthorised) but as I say, this project was done purely for my own devices. The lyrics were sourced from DeepFixer's posts in the Rock and Roll board - thanks DF.
I'd love to hear what people think of them - did the images work for you? were they appropriate to the theme of the song? - so without further ado, let's go:
[broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link][broken link]
Links edited to point to the individual Gallery pages (where you can read my comments on each page) rather than the .jpgs.
Enjoy. :)
Cheers,
David
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