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What FUCKNO’s Instagram page would look like if they existed.

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What iTunes might look like if FUCKNO released Nameless and did well in the charts... really well!

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This is the layout of my eight page booklet for inside the CD. I could have stapled the book together, but I think this looks so much better this way: it tells a story that you follow along, either as a folded book, or something that you can pull out. With iTunes these day, CDs need a unique selling point, something special, a reason to buy the CD rather than the download. Here, the unique selling point is, as I’ve said before, that each CD is individually ripped so completely unique to any other release of the FUCKNO’s Nameless album. But also, you can pull out this booklet and have it like a linear poster, which I think looks really good. 

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Print out of my Live project. I printed double of everything incase I cut something badly or messed up.

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This is my printed 8 page booklet for inside the CD. I could have done it the classical way by stapling the book together, but I think this looks so much better and clearer: it tells a story that you follow along, either as a folded book, or something that you can pull out. With iTunes these day, CDs need a unique selling point, something special, a reason to buy the CD rather than the download. Here, the unique selling point is, as I’ve said before, that each CD is individually ripped so completely unique to any other release of the FUCKNO’s Nameless album. But also, you can pull out this booklet and have it like a linear poster, which I think looks really good. 

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The file I was given for the Instagram template on Moodle was tiny! I checked with fellow classmates and they had all the same file. So this is my edit for the Instagram template, even though it is so compressed. If that’s how it’s meant to be then that fine, just surprised by the size.

Anyway, this is my design for the Instagram layout.

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This is my layout for the Facebook template. I liked the minimal look of Future’s Hndrxx album where it just shows the name of the album. 

I wanted to do the same with mine, just showing the album name, Nameless, and the model’s boobs with the figure: the provocative part of the album cover. Therefore it would be grungy to focus on that part. 

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My finished back cover and front cover for the CD.

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These are two edits of the back cover of the CD, including the spine design. I for sure prefer the second, with FUCKNO at the bottom: the balance is just better in this edit.

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My back cover needed cropping to fit the CD better when printed, so from the 3 different crops I thought this one worked best:

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My finished front cover for the CD. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, and was worth the hours of writing and editing for sure.

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50 words describing my band and their demographic:

FUCKNO is an all female protest grunge band. The demographic is women who is old enough to go to the pub but young enough that feminism is new and exciting: aged 18-24; women who want to march in a protest and then in the evening go to a dive-bar and listen to angry, protest songs and feel liberated and powerful.

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As I said previously on this blog, I had though some of the writing produced by my graphic designers was too overly designed, even when the graphic designers tried to re-created my writing (see first image: 1/4). So we had all decided that it just looked better if I wrote some of the writing and left them to do the titles and logo and such. 

So these are a set of track listings I send over to my graphics team and their experiments to place them with my back cover image for the CD; there still need some work done. For example, I want the letters moved more, they’re too ordered, there needs a little more space and shift between the words.

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A short clip of me handwriting all the lines over the A3 poster, which was printed to A1 so it would scan back in with as little information lost after I finished writing all over it. 

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A short clip of me having handwritten all the lines over the CD cover. I did three versions so I could choose which looked better and would go to print.

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A short clip of me handwriting all the lines over the CD cover. I did three versions so I could choose which looked better and would go to print.

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The other point that came out of my graphic design meeting was the cover. I had asked for them to place the sentiment “If you’re not angry then you’re not paying attention” (in my handwriting - see previous post on this blog for explanation) on my cover, as I felt the cover was too minimal and needed something. However, something went wrong when they were trying to place it on the cover and the sentiment duplicated many times. However, I though this looked really cool, written all over the CD cover in almost a frenzy, in a religious manner like a mantra, over and over again. It somewhat reminded me of the artist, John Baldessari’s performance piece where he filmed himself writing over and over again, “I will not make any boring art”.

‘I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art’, John Baldessari, 1971.

To get this sense of mantra and frenzy - that the person writing this is almost doing the old-school punishment of writing lines in detention (which I personally remember having to do), I though that it would look better if all the lines were written by hand, otherwise it would become obvious that the line was replicated over the page, and not look good or grungy. Therefore I agreed to handwrite the CD cover and poster.So my graphic designers printed out some copies of the cover and the poster (scaled up so that it would reduce down for printing better without loosing loads of information).