Using archive illustrations

Playing with textures

I wanted to play around with adding more textures and colours to the original images, so though adding this soft glow effect could be interesting in juxtaposing more harsh textures. It also hides aspects of the image which nicely links to censorship. 

I added a 3D rendered texture from an image of whitewash, which added much more of an aggressive/ harsh element to the design, thus contrasting the soft glowing red hues. I also wanted to conflict this by using a pastel colour for the whitewash, which complimented the idea of soft vocals within the sub genre. 

Adding text

I added my typeface in a vibrant red colour to provide consistency within the designs' colour palette; I want the design to have a strong motif of red due to its connotations of anger which are associated within the origins of punk/ post punk in Russia. Despite this, I feel like the black outlining is slightly too harsh, and could be softened by using a pastel hue? Possibly to also match the texture colour. 

Adding illustrations

I added the illustrations of people dancing to relate to the title of the Molchat Doma song Tancevat, meaning 'to dance'. Although a subtle reference, I feel like the addition of the illustrations tie the cover design together; especially the matching colour palette. 

This version uses an alternative illustration of people dancing; I think I definitely prefer the composition of this version, as it looks more balanced in regards to the text/ illustration covering the imagery. 

I played around with adding some little details like more blurred/ whitewashed effects by inverting certain aspects of the background image; I feel like this completes the design as it adds little details that provide more complexity.

I think now that I'm happy with the A side concept, I want to explore it further by making mockups, and considering the B side design for Buerak; I want it to have the same tone, yet use similar imagery and have the same visual language.