Cover artwork DOs and DON’Ts for your next album or single.
In this episode of the DIY Musician Live, I speak with CD Baby’s Josh Coyle and Crystal Lemons about how to design eye-catching cover artwork, and we take a look at some examples of both good and bad cover design.
Before you hire a designer, manufacture CDs, or pay to distribute your music, find out:
- What makes a great album cover?
- What are some common artwork mistakes?
- What are the guidelines that must be followed if you want your music to be available on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music?
- And how do you create an effective cover yourself without dropping a bunch of money?
For answers to these design questions and more, check out the video above.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.