bloc party’s past cd cover designs

Sophie Marina Billington

Band name in trademark ‘Bloc

Party’ font.

Album title in same font.

Photograph of snowy scene.

Long shot.

Simple colours used. White,

black and brown.

Band members not featured on

album cover.

Same trademark font used again.

Smaller this time. Medium shot of bus roads. Long shutter speed

used to capture moving lights.

Once again, band members are notfeatured on the

cover. All colours compliment each

other. Dull browns, greens,

reds and yellows.

Extreme close-up photograph.

Again, band are not

featured on album cover.

Same trademark ‘Bloc Party’ font

used for name of band and album

title.

Simple colours used

again. Neutral pinks, blacksand whites.

Band members notfeatured on

cover.

Very simple graphic used.

4 different coloured circles to

represent 4th

album and 4 members of

the band.

Trademark ‘Bloc Party’ logo/font is not used on this

album cover.This demonstrates the

band’s popularity. There is now no need to

feature them OR the name of their band on

their album cover!

Bloc Party’s album covers have clearly evolved over time. Their debut album “SilentAlarm” featured a wide-shot photograph of a snowy scene, the second album “AWeekend in the City” featured a medium-shot photograph of a traffic scene, the thirdalbum “Intimacy” featured an extreme close-up shot photograph of two people kissing,and their fourth album “Four” featured a very simple graphic.The band have never needed to feature on their album covers due to their popularity anddedicated audience, but clearly over time they have felt even less of a need to feature ontheir album covers as even the name of their band has now disappeared from their albumcovers.

Name of band is large and central on the

album cover.

Name of band is smaller on their second

album cover.

Name of band is central but smaller than it was on their debut album

cover.

Name of band is not featured on album

cover.

First single cover is very similar to the album cover.

Same trademarkfont has been used

for band name.

Almost identical artwork to the album cover has been used on the single cover.

Very simple colours used. Black and

white.

Very important: Instead of using all space, a small square in the centre of the cover has been used to display the artwork, band name and single name.

Same trademark font has been used for band

name.

Small square in centre of cover has been used again. Instead of using the entire cover to display their artwork, the band seem to be following a trend of using this small square.

Once again, very simple colours

have been used. Inner square

artwork contains blacks and whites; outer square is a simple tan colour.

Same font used again.

Simple colours have been used again. Purple,

black and white.

Artwork has a purple colour

cast.

Smaller square design has been used once again. This is a trend with all singles from the album ‘Silent Alarm’.

Overall design follows

conventions of first three ‘Silent

Alarm’ single covers. Overall block of colour

with a small inner square containing

artwork.

Same font has been used

again.

Simple colours used. Block grey for background and green and white for inner square artwork.

All use the small inner square design to display the artwork and band/single name

All use simple colours

All feature the name of the band in their signature font

Last three feature photographs of flags in the artwork

All use block colours for background (white, tan, purple and grey

Clear that they all come from the same album and are connected in that way

Same font has been used

following their debut album. They

continue to use this font

throughout all of their releases.

Name of band/single are much smaller on the covers for the singles from ‘A Weekend in the City’. This could be because it is Bloc Party’s 2nd album and fans will now recognise their style on a CD cover as opposed to their name.

Simple black background.

Just like they used the small inner square design on the

covers for ‘Silent Alarm’, the band are now using a rectangular

strip at the top of the CD

cover for the artwork for

singles from ‘A Weekend in

the City’.

Once again, simple and neutral colours have been used on this CD cover. At this time in their career, Bloc party didn’t tend to use vibrant/bold colours on their

covers.

Same font used once again.

Rectangular strip at the top

of the CD cover used to

display artwork.Simple black

background used.

Overall cover is almost identical to previous single CD cover. Only difference is the artwork and the name of the single.


Rectangular strip used

once again to display

artwork.


Green colour cast used for

the artwork on this single CD

cover. Very dull green, not too

vibrant. Connotates

witches which are associated with the colour

green.


Rectangular strip used to

display artwork again.

Simple black background. Yellow

colour cast used on the artwork for

this CD cover. Trend with

Bloc Party CD covers.

All use a rectangular strip design to display the artwork

All have a black background


All artwork photographs are of areas in a city (symbolising album title)


Small inner square design

used again, just like singles from

‘Silent Alarm’.

Bloc Party font used again.

Simple grey background

used.

Extreme close up shot of man

running his hand through woman’s

hair.

Silver/grey colour cast used on photograph to connotate mercury.

Extreme close up shot of

fingers on a female’s neck.

Represents ‘talons’.



Small inner square design

used again. This is a theme with all

single covers from ‘Intimacy’.

Small inner square design used to display cover artwork.

Extreme close up shot of hand

touching skin. ECU shots are a

feature of all artwork for singles from ‘Intimacy’.



‘Exclusion’ cast on artwork causes an

eerie effect symbolic of aliens and

‘signs’.



Extreme close up used again. Always seems

to be of skin or body parts.

This is a theme with single covers from ‘Intimacy’.

Small inner square used again

for artwork.

All use an inner square design to display the artwork

All have a block colour background (usually black)


All artwork photographs are of extreme close ups of skin (symbolising album title ‘Intimacy’)


Same four colours as the album. This time

presented as parallel lines as opposed to a circle.

Same simple black

background used, just like album cover.

Name of band is not featured

on cover.Very clear that this is a single from ‘Four’. The cover

artwork is almost identical, just different shapes used.

Only one single released so far

Clear that it comes from the album ‘Four’ as the same coloured line design has been used

Uses a simple black background

Does not feature the name of the band

bloc party’s past cd cover designs

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