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Adobe Commissioned - 80s record cover

  • Sandrine Bascouert

This project was commisionned by Adobe UK for the Adobe Photoshop marketing team. It showcases how to easily create a 80s inspired record cover with simple assets such as stock photography, duotone effects and halftones textures.

First I had to create a moodboard for the project once we settled for a vinyl cover. I took cues from the graphic design trends from the time: bold colours, collage art and mechanical print effects.
All put together in a guide
including historical references as well as contemporary ones
A very important aspect is the typography: I wanted to use distressed type, as a nod to my love of Letraset!
The brief called for a portrait and I chose to put forward South Asian models for the cover as it has to resonate to a UK audience and as well as showing diverse faces, still being relevant to the time and location (there was a healthy scene of punk and post-punk bands that included BAME musicians at the time, so it seemed very apt to me. I also included a London landmark: The BT tower.
See the resulting video tutorial on my instagram page:
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