For the cover reviews I chose Daniel Velez and Enan O’Mally’s pieces to comment on.

Daniel Chose to do redesign of an album cover for the post hardcore band Alesana. I really like the the redesign because it obviously makes it more colorful and attractive to my eye. The original looks very gloomy and i sense they are going for a post apocalyptic feel. But if I were walking down the isle the redesign would probably catch my eye a lot sooner. The shapes on the redesign give it a retro -future spiritual type of feel like David Bowies albums.

Link to work – https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/dannyv-eportfolio/

The Second piece I would like to discuss is Enan’s book cover for Eragon by Christopher Paolini. The Cover is simple in its design and concept and the colors are used effectively in my opinion. I can clearly see its a dragon because of my familiarity with the series. Someone that does not know as much might be confused so i would focus on making the eye look more believably dragon like. I particularly like the fonts that were used which are very appropriate for this genre.

link to work – https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/eomalley-eportfolio/

This is my quick assessment of my peers projects.