Drafting for the CD Inlays

Anand, Trupti & Urvi

CD Inlay Idea 1

This is a draft of the inlay however the font doesn't really stand out here and is not easy to read therefore we decided to use pictures which would be more suitable for a CD inlay.

CD Inlay Idea 2

We derived this idea from the inlay of ‘Doowops and Hooligans’, an album by Bruno Mars. It is very eye catching

therefore we thought to do something similar for our CD inlay. However from the picture we took of our artist

Sandhya Acharya, the cartoon effect would not suit the theme of her album.

CD Inlay Idea 3We decided to use the idea for the 1st inlay cover ( the use of the quote) because we felt that it separated our work from conventional inlay covers, which usually have images of the artist. However we changed the actual image, similar to the inlay of ‘Doowoops and Hooligans’. We added a drop shadow and outer glow to the quote to make it stand out from the image.

CD Inlay Idea 3

The existing CD design above was very appealing and due to our music video having a scene where she burns the letters, we thought it would be a good idea to combine some ideas from the music video to the CD inlay. Therefore , this idea of the burning letter would be well suited for a design of an inlay. We took a picture of the letter burning and added a custom painted mask to further shadow and darken the edges.

CD Inlay Idea 4

Instead of the letter for the Inlay background where the CD is places, we thought it would be better for the background to be a collage of the artist and the guy in the music video to imply that the whole album is about a single guy whom she had a history with. This would inform the audience what her album is based on and would also set expectations on the overall mood/emotions of both music video and ancillary texts alike.