| Representing the "less is more" school of disc design, we have the Los Lobos disc Kiko. No pictures; just the artist, the album title and the copyright information. It works - the disc design complements rather than competes with the cover, and the variation in letter size, the variations in color, the variation in depth ("Los Lobos" has a black dropshadow, "Kiko" doesn't), and the careful placement of the type all add interest.
From a technical standpoint, there are only two minor quibbles:
1) The serif type (looks like Times) at the bottom is so small that many of the thin lines have dropped out. Fortunately, it's not completely illegible, and it's only the copyright information, for which ease of reading isn't critical as long as the copy is decipherable. Emboldening the text wouldn't have solved the problem - Times Bold has heavy contrast between the thicks and the thins, and the thins would still be skinny enough to drop out. A sans serif typeface such as Helvetica or Univers would have been a better choice. |
