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Create a music label

In every school, there are certainly some students who produce their music, play in a band, are MC-ing, are “bedroom composers” in different music styles.

This exercice aims to develop an in-school music label that showcases those young artists and their music.

Possible outcomes:

  • Label name and brand identity
  • Logo and visual style
  • Artwork templates for releases across several formats (digital, audio cassette…)
  • Artwork templates for different release categories: album, single, EP, compilation…
  • Web presence on different platforms (Bandcamp, Soundcloud…)
  • Design a label compilation
  • Other types of media: flyers, stickers, event posters, animations for social media…

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Design a record cover

A historical design assignment by Tomás Maldonado, at the Ulm School of Design, presented in 1963 in the magazine Ulm 8/9.

In the second quarter of the academic year 1962/63, Tomás Maldonado set the following exercise to the first year students of the Visual Communication Department: to design a case for a 33 1/3 r.p.m. gramophone record. The students could choose from records by
Mauricio Kagel (Transicion I, Transicion II, Antithese), by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Zyklus) and by Franco Evangelisti. If prefered, however, they could design a case for a record of their own selection. The cases
could be designed either in colour or in black and white – as also the circular labels in the centres of the records.

Some of the resulting works by students:

Design: Zlatan Medtugorac (1963)
Design: Hermann Ay (1963)
Design: Hermann Ay (1963)
Design: Joseph Breuer (1963)
Design: Lothar Spree (1963)
Design: Harmut Kowalke (1963)
Design: Hansrudolf Buob (1963)