DREAMS COVERED

- JULIAN PARKER

I love album covers. If the cover is fresh (like the examples shown) I might buy the album just for that fact,rather than finding the album online. I believe seeing covers to album such as Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" and Beastie Boy's "Hello Nasty" at a young age has contributed to my interests in art and illustrating a vision through it. I feel the appeal of creative album covers is that they are fantastical and dream-like. You can create a world of your own, as strange and detailed as you want as long you have the imagination and passion.

I also see the relationship of these intriguing images and my fasination with symbols. I create music (beats) and do a little rapping when my Mac is working, so album art is something that I do and relate to; which also helps me learn techniques in my graphic design endevours. In covers such as these, the artist conveys a emotion and central message of the album. I was recently told that being Pisces suggests that I am emotional, but do not show my emotions easily. I feel there is some truth to that, as I like to use art to express emotions rather than crying about things - I hate when people cry about silly things.