Mock-ups

Digital mock-ups

I decided to make some quick mockups of my designs so far to see how the zine/ album cover would look in person. I think this was important especially now that I can't actually print it anymore. The issue with this is that I don't know if I should follow the strict nature of designing for screen printing? I could always make a negative of the design, but there would be the risk of the gradient not looking as good screen printed.

Zine concept

This is the concept that I would have explored by using a zine to wrap around the vinyl cover; the design involves the textures separated on the zine cover and vinyl. This would probably work better if the zine texture was a different colour scheme in order to contrast. This mockup also gave me a chance to consider the sticker design for the vinyl itself; I used the same texture from the album cover. I think this is an area that I need to develop more. Also, contextually, this design would have the type printed on the outer sleeve/ plastic film.