What you haven't heard can be seen first. Each CD has a unique cover picture, and the cover is the CD's business card. Before we listen to this song, we will know the basic information such as the style and content of the CD through the cover. It is a kind of packaging form that introduces the specific contents of records and is an integral part of the music carrier. Photo album cover design, like book binding design, expresses specific content through the combination of graphics and text. The album cover not only carries the visual aesthetics, but also accurately conveys the connotation of music. Compared with other types of graphic design, it has its own distinct uniqueness.

Below, we mainly understand the cover design of CD records from three aspects: design concept, design characteristics and design size.

First, the concept of CD cover design

As an excellent CD cover design work, we should clearly point out the theme and convey the basic information of the record, such as the album name or the names of singers and performers, to consumers quickly and accurately. And many other factors should be considered at the beginning of the design, such as the music style of the record, the audience of the record music, the distribution area of the record and so on. Based on these, the album cover design will be accurately positioned. Generally speaking, the album cover design of pop music often highlights the singer or album name. For non-mainstream music types that deviate from popularity, it is important to pay attention to whether the connotation of record cover design reflects the idea that music wants to express. However, no matter what kind of music cd record, its cover design is a form of auxiliary advertising, and its purpose is to make people notice it at first sight among many records.

Second, the characteristics of CD cover design

1. Small design space

Before the birth of CD records, movie records have always occupied the mainstream of the record market. Although there are many similarities between their cover designs and CD records, the cover size of CD records is 12.5cm* 12cm, while the size of film records is several times larger than that of CD records, and the design room is much larger than that of CD records. On the cover of CD records, not only the basic information such as the name of the record, the name of the singer and the theme map should be reflected. , but also according to the characteristics of different music types or singers to design and arrange graphics and text. Therefore, it is much more difficult to design a small CD cover space and achieve the purpose of publicity. Therefore, we can say that the isometric design of CD records is a design with a small space and a big idea, which requires accurate design language and means to convey and express the record information.

2. Strong artistry

Although CD cover design is a derivative of music and closely related to commerce, many CD cover designs are full of commercial flavor, but there are still many excellent CD cover design works without commercial impetuousness. Their colleagues who pursue commercial effects also attach great importance to the combination with art. Many successful CD cover designs are marked with photos with remarkable artistic characteristics, realistic paintings with individuality, expressive abstract hand-drawn graffiti and so on. Its rich artistic expression, wonderful conception and proper composition make CD cover design a unique sketch in the field of graphic design. In addition, there are many artists who use artistic language to assist the contents of the record, which makes the cover design different in style and form and makes the record more ornamental.

Thirdly, the size design of CD cover.

Paper size of traditional CD case: the main cover is on the left. Size: width 125MM, 3MM bleeding on the left, height 126, 3MM bleeding on the top and bottom. Secondary seal (picture on the right side of the main cover): The width and height are the same as the left side, but the bleeding position is on the right side. Size of backing paper (excluding two folds): width 138MM without bleeding, height 124MM, bleeding 3MM above and below. Dimensions of two folds of backing paper: effective dimensions are width 7MM+3MM bleeding (note that one is on the left and the other is on the right), height 124MM, and upper and lower bleeding 3MM.. It's best to confirm the size of the CD box first. Some CDs need packing. If there is a little mistake, the consequences will be terrible! The centerfold cover of the CD is what you said. In fact, the final product 12* 12 is also possible, and it was 12.3* 12.6 before bleeding.