WEEK 3 - Researching the content

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WEEK 3 - Researching the content

AWESOME ARTWORK
Iron maiden- best of the beast created by Derek Riggs Derek Riggs is the artist behind the band iron maiden’s iconic imagery, the art he created for them is as recognisable as the music itself, going on to produce t- shirts and posters at a highly successful rate. Music is closely linked with art a curtain music audience often relates to a curtain type of imagery, Riggs’ art captures the band’s music perfectly this is important when illustrating for music, the art you create has to communicate and speak to the audience, you wouldn’t pick up this album if you were looking for classical, dance, hip-hop, or pop. And vice versa you wouldn’t expect neon graphics or graffiti on an Iron maiden CD. Riggs’s would have a understanding of the band’s music, lyrics and meaning and would work with the band in producing the art, for most of his album cover he would re draft over and over while members of the band would request changes .The same font for the band name is used on album covers but this is helpful to the audience to recognise the bands CD’s but the font for the album name varies which allows the audience to distinguish between them. This particular album (best of the beast) is a compilation of the band’s best song from previous albums so the artist has combined imagery from them albums all have highly recognisable art work and put them all together for this, so the art work on this album is almost as important as the music given its history and popularity. These illustrations would need fine detail because although albums are small and less detail is needed the same illustrations will be used for large scale posters and promotional material. this album cover is successful like all of them through the years and I feel these have been well produced for their audience and medium