Assignment 1 Part 1/3 – Appropriation

For this part of the assignment we were asked to re-design the front and back of a record cover using pastiche and parody.

I was a bit worried about this project because I had never even touched a vinyl record before, let alone knew how to design one. But once I calmed down and started brainstorming the ideas actually came pretty naturally.

I knew I really wanted to use the band Journey because I like their songs and they have some very stylized and recognizable album covers.

To come up with the other ideas I found a really great website that sold records and searched through their catalog for some inspiration and other popular records I could use.

Some of my initial ideas:

(Journey – Don’t Stop Believing) as ‘Clergy – Don’t Stop Believing’ Replacing parts of the original cover with religious motifs (priests, crosses, dove) to create a humorous commentary on religion and how it can aggressively try to prevent people from leaving the church and no longer ‘believing’
(Journey – Don’t Stop Believing) as ‘Journey – Stop Believing’ twisting the songs original message around 180 and using the train motif used in the song, as a visual on the cover depicted running someone over 😦
(Elvis – If I Can Dream) as ‘Edvard – If I Can Scream’ combining a recognizable song title and an iconic painting as a little twist and comedic element
(Little Screams – The Golden Record) Replacing the boys in the water with multiple duplicates of the scream lol
(Journey – Freedom) as ‘Jersey – Fandom’ replacing the art with a sports jersey
(Fleetwood Mac – Rumours) as Fleetwood Mac – Boomers replacing the young man and woman on the front cover with an old man and woman (boomers) dancing together.
(The Legend of Johnny Cash) as the ‘Legend of Trash’. Kinda dumb but it made me giggle.