Build Your Own Album Cover

[The Grand Wazoo]

For a bit of fun..........

I've been playing about with this for a few months now, on & off.

The idea is to create your own album cover from totally random elements generated from visiting three different websites.

STEP 1: The name of your band comes from a random Wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The band name is the title of the article.

STEP 2: The name of the album is from a page of quotations.
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

You use the last 4 words of the last quote on the page.

STEP 3: The picture on the cover come from .....
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

You use the third picture no matter what it is.

Then you copy & paste these three things into photo editing software or something to create the design using whatever talent you may or may not have. (I actually use MSWord).

What I find amazing is the number of times that the photo/picture is particularly apt for the name of the album/quotation used.

The only problem with this is that if you do it twice on the same day, you have to find another set of rules to define how you get the quotation for your album title as this is only updated daily. But it is kind of interesting using the same title & seeing what different band names & photos can go with it.

I've done one for today's quote, so if anyone has a go today, I'll post mine later.

In the meantime, I've attached one I particularly like from a while back. The band is Kombo North & the album title is 'By One Single Error' which I thought was pretty well spot on for the picture. There was NO CHEATING involved to find an appropriate match. It kind of reminds me of The Smiths (who I loathe). Click the thumbnail to enlarge it.

Have fun & post some up if you try it.

[Filterlab]

Nice little random album cover generator!

I designed the covers for all my albums, and even some uncompleted albums too. That's almost more fun that writing the music. In the past I've used a combination of Mediaface, Apple Drawing, Paint, MS Photo Editor, Photoshop 7, Graphic Converter, Pixen and Paintbrush. Now I just use Drawing and Preview with a touch of iPhoto. Keep them simple I say!

[John]

wow it works

[The Grand Wazoo]

I thought I'd do a cover for a compilation CD I'm burning..............



It looks a bit like something on the ECM label - Jan Garbarek maybe?

[The Grand Wazoo]

From The Grave




.......I bent the rules slightly for these in order to allow others to have a go!

[MartinT]

Only one as it takes too long...

[The Grand Wazoo]

Only one as it takes too long...

Nice one Martin - I wonder if this is as good as their 1st album 'With A Bar'?!

[MartinT]

I rather like 'Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone' as a group name.

[Thing Fish]

This is mine. I swear I didn't cheat...!

Only noticed afterwards that I had 5 words not 4 in the title. Sorry.

[YNWaN]

I really like all of these - I'm gonna have a go.