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13272681, What's with the trend of album covers with no text?
Posted by The Wordsmith, Mon Jul-09-18 09:50 AM
Who started the current trend of having an album cover with absolutely no text on it (with exception to a parental advisory label for explicit albums)? I know that there have been albums in the past with nothing but a picture and that's it, but those were an exception, not the norm.
I was looking at the list of new releases on Google Play Music and a good number of those albums had no text at all. If it weren't for the streaming service providing info regarding the names of the albums and the artists who made them, I would've been lost.
Could you imagine going to the record store back in the day and having to physically pull out 50% of the albums, that you're thumbing through, just to look at the back of each one so that you could see who made them and what their titles are? That would've been annoying.
I have no problem with the no text concept when the artwork is strong/compelling/effective enough to carry the cover but that's not always the case. A number of those covers could use text (of course done in a stylish font/logo that works with the pic) to give them a better feel/aesthetic because, on their own, they lack strength.
What say y'all?
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13272684, text is unnecessary in the streaming era
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Mon Jul-09-18 09:54 AM
where the album name/artist shows up right under the picture.
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13272689, I get that but still....
Posted by The Wordsmith, Mon Jul-09-18 10:00 AM
...sometimes it helps the cover aesthetically. I did mention that streaming services aid those albums. The no text concept works when the pic/artwork is strong enough or else it looks like a plain picture. When that's the case, it looks lazy and thrown together.
Since 1976
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13272686, I love it.. it shows confidence
Posted by legsdiamond, Mon Jul-09-18 09:58 AM
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13272691, I think it works only when....
Posted by The Wordsmith, Mon Jul-09-18 10:03 AM
....it conveys the message of the album (and is visually pleasing) in a clear manner. Otherwise, it feels cheap.
Since 1976
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13272737, cheap? you act like folks are using letterpress to place text on the cover
Posted by legsdiamond, Mon Jul-09-18 10:56 AM
odd word to use.
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13272722, RE: What's with the trend of album covers with no text?
Posted by double 0, Mon Jul-09-18 10:36 AM
can you read to text on a small ass cover? on your phone?
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13272726, I know MBDTF wasn't the first, but I feel like it picked up
Posted by Marauder21, Mon Jul-09-18 10:39 AM
after that
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13272739, damn near erything w/text is phasing out...look at cpu's
Posted by ambient1, Mon Jul-09-18 10:58 AM
everything is a damn icon
and we text using emoji's vs......text lol
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13272742, we got pics and emojis to express everything.
Posted by tariqhu, Mon Jul-09-18 11:04 AM
so let the pic tell me something.
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