Album art from James Brown and Herbie Hancock from around the seventies. I chose the one to the left because it's following the idea of using bright bold colours and to me it represents a good time and a dance, a rhythm to dance to. I have noticed similar to the Mardi Gras posters the use of uppercase strong structured lettering. The idea of overlapping the letters makes it look slightly playful which I think helps relate to the style of music, soul but with a funk sound, showing idea of not conventional? The one thing I want to stay away from is making the band look retro even though the style of music is old I don't want to album art to portray this. In the red example a different style of type has ben used to me looking more like iconic seventies style an more 'dicso' like. I feel the album to the right represents soul-funk much better than to the left, it even states on that album 'A brand new thang' obviously trying to brake into a new sound and the style of his cover has followed that. Herbie Hancock's album shows a different side to jazz it lead me to believe it's quite soothing soft jazz or as jazz fans say it 'dirty, stinky jazz' it's calming the colours are mellow.
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