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Julia Li

BFA in Illustration - Illustration Design — Illustration
Course:
Communication Design 1
Faculty:
Amelia Stier
Term:
2023 Fall

Vinyl Cover Design - CD1

In my Communication Design 1 class, we were asked to reimagine a vinyl cover from scratch, so I chose to redesign an album by one of my favorite musicians—especially since he doesn’t have a vinyl version yet, which gave me a lot of creative freedom. I started with the title and track list, then built everything around a chaotic acrylic painting I made, blending in my own storm photography and physical textures like scratches. 

Coming from an illustration background, I approached it very hands-on, mixing physical and digital processes in Photoshop before assembling the final vinyl cover. It ended up being a really experimental, collaborative process across mediums— a dream project that I produced.

Tags:
2D Design,
Advertising,
Branding,
Product Design
The front of the album is hand painted and edited after to fit the size of the album vinyl sleeve (12"x12")
the backside of the vinyl is made up of a photo that I took during a thunderstorm back home, and inversed it with a traditional van gogh painting, and customized typography.