Lupe Fiasco "Food and Liquor"
The artwork on Lupe Fiasco's album cover is an image of him with a stereo in his hand and other random objects flying around him, by the looks of the way it is set, it is showing himself in space. The artwork is a dark background with the colours intensifying round Lupe Fiasco in the centre, this makes him stand out very well to anyone glancing at the CD.
The album art in this piece is very futuristic and crisp, using bright colours and sharp images as well as obvious editing on the artists face. This makes the overall outcome look very perfect and bright, the one downfall on this artwork is the text used, that even though it is fancy and quite Arabic, it is extremely hard to read, especially at a distance so isn't good if a person is looking for that CD.
Lupe Fiasco Stated the art work was inspired by a skateboard deck he owned. and that he is floating in air, surrounded by several items, including a Banksy postcard, Nintendo DS, a sketchbook, the Qur'an and a robot. He explained that the items were picked out carefully, as they were things he carried around every day - Wikpedia
Overall I think this is a good album artwork, but the text would need to be changed if I was trying to create something like this. I also think that changing the artists face with editing software would be a bad move and start to go towards the path as making them look fake. But I like the aspects of him being in space with bright colours meeting towards him.
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