Contemporary Album Cover Design

Music is the auditory arts, the album cover is the visual arts, the two itself is not related. And the album cover this art form will the two cleverly together. The album cover is the visual medium of mass culture, in a special visual form, and its music and cultural connotation through the cover show out. When we first see the cover of the album, after the brain's cognitive response, the content of the music has a certain understanding of. Consumers perceive the record directly visual image, from access to record information, direct purchase intention, which proved that cover the status is special and important, which also requires in record production to consider a lot of album art appreciation and design means.A small record, which contains the cover design, product packaging and sales channels and a series of links, only cover design include the aesthetics and philosophy and art, so of music albums on what we feel is not just music, can feel the music, record, design between the relationship, feel plot buyers of music and a system of state of mind.Study music album cover in the atmosphere of modern society business economic form, the design, the idea of artistic characteristics, summarizes its distinctive design style and visual characteristics, the innovation ability of the art of music performance, has very important practical significance.This article mainly of six chapters, the first chapter is introduction, mainly introduced this topic research background, significance, literature review, research methods and ideas; The second chapter is a brief introduction of independent music and review of the rise and development process of independent music in our country; The third chapter is the analysis of the functions and characteristics of the album cover, summed up in this paper, the present theme of the album cover, sensual entertainment and aesthetic wizard, the enlightenment to understand and music art interaction and so on five big functions; The fourth chapter is analyzing the social implications of album cover design, mainly considering the reality of contemporary society, study the independent music album cover art value, commercial value and aesthetic value. The fifth chapter is the study of independent music album cover design language analysis, emphasis on independent music album cover design of fashion structure, conceptual photography, collage and graphics using regression and exploratory experimental design, graffiti, symbol, the five big technique; Analysis summary modern at the same time independent music album cover design of the tong zhen tong qu, xuan in Cain, absurd, interesting ideas and assign meaning to form rhythm of lines and so on five big creative design characteristics; The sixth chapter is summary, the main is our country contemporary independent music album cover design concept and expression method.