Design Evaluation

According to iTunes Music, these two albums are categorized in the Pop genre and were released in 2016. Both also have a value price of $13. 

  

Bad Design

The color looks washed out. Title is also hardly visible because there is not enough contrast between the letters and Britney. No Gestalt Principles apply to this album cover.

Good Design

Contrast: The bright red creates contrast with the white and the golden crown. 

Gestalt Principle: Law of Closure is present with the bottom half of Rihanna's body. The album cover demonstrates the Law of Pragnanz when looking at the girl. At first you see one person but there is actually two different shadows behind the girl.

Texture: The braille in the background is a poem for Rihanna by Chloe Mitchell .

"I sometimes fear that I am misunderstood.

It is simply because what I want to say,

What I need to say, won't be heard.

Heard in a way I so rightfully deserve.

What I choose to say is of so much substance

That people just won't understand the depth of my message.

So my voice is not my weakness,

It is the opposite of what others are afraid of.

My voice is my suit and armor,

My shield, and all that I am.

I will comfortably breath in it, until I find the moment to be silent.

I live loudly in my mind, so many hours of the day.

The world is pin drop sound compared to the boom

That thumps and bumps against the walls of my cranium.

I live it and love it and despise it and I am entrapped in it.

So being misunderstood, I am not offended by the gesture, but honored.

If they let us…"

"The crown is a metaphor to appreciate small things in life. The balloon is lighter than air and is a metaphor for escaping reality." - Roy Nachum