worst album cover
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- SkyPoo0
Even more excrutiating is when you've written off your aspirations for the cover and gone with a photoshopped version of the lead singer's wife's biro drawing and then its time to fill 12 pages of booklet, and the band provide you with 12kb jpegs of their legs, and polaroids of street signs that have some significance to them, and they get really angry about the record label stifling their creativity becuase they can't have a die-cut on each page in the shape of their parent's heads.
One single I did for Scissor Sisters, they wanted their Mom's photgraphs on the back of the sleeve. They provided really piss poor pictures and I crammed them in (five old dears in total) but they were not happy about how small they were.
Aside from the pictures there has to be barcodes, track listings, legal copy, codes, logos... all that other stuff, and a CD single is about 120mm square.
The label executive looking afte rthem called up and said "They're not happy. You have to make the pictures bigger" and we ended up having an arguement about the physically impossibility of doing that vs the contractual obligation to deliver artwork that could be approved. I explained really clearly the physcial limitations and then told the label executive to instruct me exactly what size to make each picture. She said "Make each one cover half of the back of the sleeve"...
You can't argue with logic like that.
- hahahahaha. Funny how it goes all the way to the top. (or the lower-middle in this case).MrOneHundred