CD Package

The objective of this project is to re-create a full CD package. This includes, Front and back cover, inside space, spreads for lyrics and a poster advertising the CD.

Using the feeling of the singer and their style to create a sutible package that would best represent the artist and their song style.

I chose Robin Thicke, an R&B artist who is known for his smooth vocals and an recent hit in the R&B charts in the past few years (2005-2011)

This is one of the harder projects that I have done. Not because of the concept but because of the crafting and the difficulty of making everything by hand.

The harder parts besides the craft was the setting of the type in the spreads because i had to get so much type and lyrics on only one or two pages.

Through the many roughs i came through to get my final was challanging and hard to decide which one would make it. But i do not regret my decision.

I still believe that this shows a bit of sexuality, beauty,

and has a good deal of Robin Thicke’s flavor in it.

A really big lesson i learned was that printing black on black was VERY difficult but through learning about papar weights and color specting and printer checks. I was able to learn to do it properly. thus the beautiul results.

RESEARCH

Thicke’s 2008 release, Something Else, was described as “one of the year’s best R&B albums” by Chuck Arnold in People. Leah Greenblatt, writing in Entertainment Weekly, called Thicke “a sort of musical medium” who conjures up the souls of singers such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Curtis Mayfield; and she praised Thicke’s “light-footed ease with the material.”

In 2009 Thicke was featured in a song by Lil Wayne, “Tie My Hands.” The song was Wayne’s response to the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. In Billboard, Shad Read called it Wayne’s “best song to date,” and described Thicke’s singing on the track as “spectacular.