Colour Scheme
What i found out when analyzing the Snow Patrol album covers is that there's a common theme of the colours used. As you can see from the image above, all the colours used a fairly dull lots of blacks, browns, grey, dark blue. They have chosen these in particular because it represents the style of music the band plays for example the songs are fairly soft, slow, dark and depressing and these specific colours instantly when looked at emulate these emotions that the songs portray. Therefore the colour scheme chosen is effective in showing the tone and feelings that Snow Patrols songs to making it extremely relevant.
Imagery
The images on all the Snow Patrol Covers are not of the actual band, they are all concept images with meanings behind them, both simple but effective. When researching the meanings of some of the images they tended to lean towards strong emotions such as "love" "freedom" "loss of loved one" they all had touching meanings that were deep and expressive.
Text
The text in all of the album covers isn't overall big, bold or outstanding the common theme is that the font is relatively small in a more cursive and artistic typography mainly in the colour white contrasting on the dark backgrounds so it is clear and easily accessible to buyers.
Layout
On the whole all the layouts have an image covering the entire front cover this seems to be the main feature of all the album covers or the main subject whether a person or image being centered also. The typography is then the next feature to be drawn attention to however it is relatively small and not directed to stand unlike the image.
Whilst designing our our album cover and digi pack we will take into consideration all the common features "Snow Patrol" used to make their covers effective and make it relevant to their music.
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