CD Cover Comparison

Out of the three that I analysed, I decided that the KJ52 and Aesop Rock covers would be most relevant to me and decided to compare them. Both have colours (obviously) but use them very differently, where the Aesop Rock cover has a fairly limited palette, the KJ52 one seems almost random with the colours chosen, giving it a much more lively feeling than other. They also have a different feeling, the Aesop Rock's cover's cartoon makes it seem considerably more mature than the guy sitting on the television and indicates the difference in age of the target audience, leading me to believe that the Aesop Rock one is aimed at an even older audience. I feel that this is reflected in the music, as Aesop Rock's music does tend to have a much more serious tone than KJ52.

I still stand by my decision that the KJ52 iconography isn't as strong as the iconography for the Aesop Rock cover. Although the genre itself is easy to tell, within it's genre it's not very unique at all, where as there aren't that many bands with a similar iconography to Aesop Rock's. The KJ52 iconography could easily be copied and made just dissimilar enough to avoid lawsuits, like Tetris and not being able to call a falling blocks game anything ending in 'tris'.

I've learned that the iconography itself can be easily tweaked or meddled with to make two completely different looking covers that still fall within the same genre iconography. I've also learned that the late teens to very early twenties are quite the varied bunch. Many of the covers aimed at them that I've seen are completely unlike another of the genre.