Love Game
Album design (CD + Lyrics Book)
Client: Independent Artist
The client, Zhu Qing, is an independent artist who releases her music pieces on Chinese social media Red(小红书).
The album <Love Game> records 12 of her love songs written in 2022.
"12 Songs To Record My Daydreams in 2022"
-- Zhu Qing
CD Design:
A Charming but dangerous
Love Game
Multiple layers of hearts make up the target. A gun with a rose hanging on it is meant to signal that falling in love is a bitter-sweet, charming but dangerous experience.
The backside consists of the fired bullet with the rose, which exactly hits someone‘s heart.
The colors, black and pink, as well as the fonts, a rounded cute one and a bloody one also highlight the two sides, charm and danger, of this love game.
Cover and Back
Inside
Book Design:
Inspired by the lyrics "I'm an open book with upside down", one page of "A mess of me" uses a collage of a girl's portrait in black and white, as well as text with colorful fringe hanging on the image, in contrast to the right page, where the girl's illustration is colored and the text is in strips in the opposite direction .
Romance in the air depicts a mild possible flirtation between the two characters.
I used an image where a boy and girl watch the sunset on the beach. Outwardly, they seem peaceful, but deep down in their inner universe, both have fallen in love with each other.
I adjusted the curve of the astronaut so that it looks like a thermal image -- Peeking through the surface to see inside
the background is covered with the texture of the sea
A heart painted with a nebula brush expresses only a hint of an ambiguous romance vibe
For the song Let's get back together, I drew twelve hearts aligned in the way the numbers are arranged in a clock, suggesting that they are in "bad timing"