Calling all artists!
A democratic approach to album art:
So, as many of you know, my band, Pocket the Moon, is releasing our debut self-titled album, Pocket the Moon, in June. There will be ten tracks overall, all of which we’ve been playing at our shows, half of which are up on our website, facebook, reverbnation, and myspace pages. You can listen here - http://pocketthemoon.com/music
We wanted to get our supporters involved in the artwork for the album so what we are going to do is have a contest where artists can submit a design of any medium (photography, digital art, painting, etc.) by April 30th. Then we are going to post all submitted designs (without the artist’s name) on Facebook and have everyone vote on their favorite.
The winner will be our album cover! The winning artist will also receive a free copy of the album, a free ticket to our CD release show (if they live in Atlanta), and they’ll get one of our Pocket the Municorns. :)
We don’t have any “rules” for the design. We want it to be your visual interpretation of our music. The only thing we don’t want is an image of the actual band (i.e. a portrait of me and Geoff). Other than that, it’s completely up to you. Just listen to the half of our album that we have up so far and create something that “looks” like our music to you.
Save your artwork as 300 DPI or higher resolution graphic files: BMP, JPEG, or TIFF , and meet the size and dimension requirement listed here under the 2-panel insert template: http://www.diskfaktory.com/Artwork-CD-Template.asp
To submit your design, e-mail your image to pocketthemoon@gmail.com by April 30th. (We’ll give you until midnight. We’re going to have the submissions up on May 1st and have voting go through the 8th - so 1 week!)
We’re really interested to see what comes out of this!!