Container Music Albums by Kam Kun Lam is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
GoldGraphic· 2022
Container Music Albums
by Kam Kun Lam
Client: 4daz-le Records
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Container Music Albums
This is an electronic music album with the theme of human and philosophy, mind and body. As the theme of this design, the visual combines classical aesthetics, philosophy and modern electronic music. The various natural elements are combined into a chaotic image, the classical style is boldly used, and then the realistic images are matched to create the final scheme.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Container Music Albums is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Container Music Albums is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Container Music Albums creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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We bring 18 years of experience creating impactful visual communications. From brand identity to album artwork, we craft designs that merge classical aesthetics with contemporary vision. Our work has earned recognition at prestigious international design awards.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative fusion of classical aesthetics with modern electronic music in Container Music Albums creates a striking visual dialogue - could you elaborate on how you developed this unique philosophical approach to album design?
Because the creator of this electronic music CD gave me a lot of creative freedom, and he also don’t like old and traditional things, so I have to an alternative idea, packaging modern electronic music with classical visual style. This alternative visual expression technique echoes with the uniqueness of electronic music itself each other. The entire creation includes experimental works that have an impact on the image of electronic music and are very 'impish'.
The chaotic imagery in Container Music Albums challenges traditional electronic music visual conventions - what inspired your bold decision to incorporate classical elements and natural motifs in this way?
The theme of the album is called "Container", for which, the album creator explains as a "Container" for soul. I combine people, plants, and animals into a new "container" with a variety of familiar forms and countless muscles scattered around them to form an unconscious space. I hope that the visual expression of the work can present a feeling that is completely different from the impression of electronic music.
Given the intense creative debates you experienced while designing Container Music Albums, how did you ultimately achieve alignment between your artistic vision and the musician's expectations?
Although the album creator gave me a lot of freedom, but we both made decisions during the process that we couldn't agree on. Sometimes we were not satisfied with the expression of the picture, sometimes we didn't like the shape of the pattern, and sometimes we thought we could keep brainstorming new designs. Therefore, we made multiple revisions and discussions, which led to the current version. Of course, the work exceeded our expectations and we are also very satisfied. Looking back on the whole process now, it was actually painful.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- An electronic music album is composed, which contains the image of visual elements such as classical aesthetics, philosophy and modern electronic music. My customers and I have the same and only goal about this.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- CD:14cmX12.5cm
Poster:70cmX100cm - Tags
- classical, soul, chaos, container, nature, black, white, gold
- Production Technology
- Due to cost limit, only general printing technology is used to complete this work.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult point in this process is to achieve ideological consistency with musicians, because the subjectivization and personalization of ideas make the theme abstract but concrete, and it must be tried many times. In retrospect, the whole process was painful. We had a heated debate because of different design concepts, and we felt that we did our best every time. We can't always complete all kinds of designs at will, just as I now want to explain this work in the form of words, this bold idea once made me hesitate in hell for some time, i didn't return to this world until I finished my work. From the beginning of his disapproval of me to the end, he was moved. The final work surprised him. He liked the expression that broke the visual image of electronic music.
- Research
- Began to enter the status of operation after referring to the much information of natural elements and listening to the feelings of musician about my album, because too much collection of data and reference will have an impact on the uniqueness of the work, give up this method and create the work directly.
- Inspiration
- This is an electronic music album with the theme of human and philosophy, mind and body. As the theme of this design, the visual combines classical aesthetics, philosophy and modern electronic music. The various natural elements are combined into a chaotic image, the classical style is boldly used, and then the realistic images are matched to create the final scheme.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2021 in Macao and finished in February 2022 in Macao.
- Operation Flow
- Due to cost limit, only general printing technology is used to complete this case and images become our focus. This will be the purest test for a graphic designer without any special printing technical support.
- Patents
- Made In Macau, 2022 4daz-Le Records.
All rights reserved. Unauthorised coping, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited. - Team Members
- Lam Kam Kun
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