Practice Research On Album Cover Design Under Streaming Media Environment

After the appearance of music records,records have been occupying people’s spiritual world for a long time and are one of the products of people’s spiritual pursuit.Music,as one of the nine major arts in the world,is an art that reflects the emotions of human life.Music is pleasing to the eyes and brings people the enjoyment of hearing.To express people’s emotions through music will release a lot of our emotions.The field of music is changing with the development of the world.In different time backgrounds and times,people’s music preferences change with the social background and public aesthetic changes,and the music style also continues to expand and develop and become more diversified.With the development of music field,as the carrier of music,record has also changed with the development of science and technology.The shift from vinyl records to smaller,more portable tapes and CDs has led to a change in packaging design.Nowadays,with the rapid development of digital technology and the increasingly developed Internet technology,the performance of streaming media platform on the Internet is more and more brilliant,and digital music is gradually replacing physical music on the streaming media platform.As a result,the packaging design function on the traditional physical record is disappearing on the streaming media platform as the physical music turns to digital music,and the packaging of the record in the streaming media platform only remains the album cover as the identification mark of the record.Therefore,the function and importance of album cover design are more important than usual in the current development of streaming media.In this paper,by referring to relevant information books and periodicals,master and doctoral theses and other ways,the historical development of the traditional entity album cover design was traced back,in-depth understanding of the album cover design in the whole album and in the record packaging design value and role.Through studying the changes in the form of album cover design caused by the development of music style and the influence of social environment and art trend,this paper classifies several main forms of album cover design.And through the study of streaming media music,summed up the advantages of streaming media platform and its impact on album cover design.Contrast media streaming platform music album cover design and the real album cover design,the difference between the system and the comprehensive summarized in streaming media environment album cover design form and design means should make some reasonable changes,and applied to the design practice,create environment in the field of streaming media can keep like traditional entity records convey record ideas at the same time,also can stand out in the web browsing,managed to attract audience’s album cover.