Today I visited a vintage store (Retro Boutique) which has a large vinyl selection, this helped me gather some first hand research on physical vinyl design and the different dimensions (12 inch, 11 inch, 7 inch). My main reason for visiting was because I want to physically print of my vinyl sleeves designs and stickers, having actual vinyl would mean I could actually show my designs in context.
I also enjoy design for print and production methods so this is suitable for my design practice, even though the submission for YCN just needs to be digital files of the front of the sleeve. I can now book a print slot for this week in which I will print the 3 vinyl sleeves and stickers.
I bought 5 different vinyl singles incase any of them got damaged or the stickers needed re-sticking for example. Overall I really enjoyed gathering this research, particularly taking a closer look at vinyl stickers.
Furthermore, in Friday's crit it was suggested to use an image from the covers for the stickers instead of type, however I wasn't a fan of how they looked when I tried this. I showed different peers to the ones that were in my crit the new image based design vs the old type based design, they suggested to stick with the type based designs and that it's good to not repeat the exact same imagery as the covers.
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| Type based design (old) |
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