Following mus’ advic I changed the design back to the version without opacity. This is fine because that information was duplicated with size so nothing is really lost.
I also designed a center label fe the record. This ended up being really annoying because it did it myself on illustrator ad didn’t write a script for it. This meant that the concept was a bit damaged, but perhaps in the rendering of a different kind of information a human hand is legit. All the same the strange considerations of the record label conventions and the world this record is for made the design quite hard. The track information needs to be on one side for quick reference. The world that consumes these records can quickly understand what is happening on the record, where otters would be baffled by the information layout. Anyhow the outcome is strong and works fine. What I want. I also ended up using a logo Carla made the other day for the record label logo, she didn’t even know I was thinking of calling it Good Vibes Records!!!
Then I printed in the studio. The screen didn’t work first say but the next it was all fine. The gradients were inspired by graphic equalizers and then also the purple drank of southern rap music.
Everyone keeps saying that they like it which is very nice and I’m very happy with the outcome. Rad.
On Pablo’s suggestion I looked into the mediawiki software as a possible solution for the opensource graphic design website. I couldn’t quite work out how it could be used but decided just to install it to have a go:
I now have a mediawiki but it seems too much like a normal wiki to be of any use. I think that the wiki software is not well suited to the open source website. Wiki softwares seem to work best for information gathered onto a single source and not for the kind of gathering of people and ideas I wish to achieve.
And Sion helped me greatly. We figured out this way to render each pixel with a relational colour.
but it takes ages to render and to fill the box would require the track to loop a long time.
So I tried it small and scaled it up pixelation style:
looks pretty freaking cool. But perhaps to much of a barcode. Might be fun to try and read with a barcode scanner. Still worth a try, and I’ll render a size somewhere in between soon…
finally the colab book of nightmares is done and ordered. Its so nuts but I think I will love it when it comes back. Heres to hoping the colours look good as who really knows [y u no let me have a colour profile lulu?]
Dun a few versions of this situation trying out colours and opacity to make something work. I felt that the version with variable opacity didn’t actually make a nicer looking image. The aesthetic was also a bit of overtly spooky or dark, which is not something that would necessarily suit all trax put into the machine. So i went back to the solid version and played with the colours a bit more. While the two colour versions do look pretty cool and tres complex, I have been thinking about the practicalities of producing this kind of cover. The two coloru versions have many tones inbetween and I think would have to be printed 4 colour, or two spot. Whereas the 1 colour versions I’ve made below are clearly just one to print. This is pretty significant in the context that these covers might be produced, saving money is gonna be a pretty key part of any vinyl production run.
