final: CD booklet

Based on my previous project, I am going to work on my friend’s CD album artwork. I expect I’ll make whole CD artworks design, which could be 8 pages booklet, CD label, front inlay, back inlay and obi-strips. the obi-strips is very common in Japan CD industry. Obi is just a paper cover on the left side of CD case. Then, total could be 12 pages design.

My goal; the design comes from music. I believe the picture could be born from music itself. Because every song has own story I believe. The important thing is; how to organize those songs in whole design. So I want to apply the design to music.

Whole concept; soft/relax/sensitive/love/but large scale. This album title is “DEAR”, and sang by Japanese male musician, Tsukasa Takeda. He mentioned that concept for album”DEAR”.
Mainly his music style is Acoustic guitar sound. Other few songs’ instrumentals are little bit percussion, base, and bit synthesizer sound. For me, his sound is natural; not too much clean, and little bit sketchy. When I listened his last song “DEAR”, I imagined that bright lights behind the big tree and someone journey on his way, and I just look at such view. The color is really soft and bright. Then I decided to use water color for artwork. I want to keep focus on the watercolor taste.

According to him, in December 2007 he is going to sell/release this CD album from his own label.

Note; he is indie’s musician. http://takeda-tsukasa.com/