Rumour Has It...
- Podcast Artwork
Rumour Has It...
(Graphic design, layout design, illustration)
(Graphic design, layout design, illustration)
Following the creation of a podcast series, funded by both Arts Council England and The Radio Academy, I was approached and asked to design and create artwork for the series, which delves into local family history and legends. The brief focused around achieving a design which, whilst representing the nature of the project, captured a cheeky, almost gossip-like feeling - a way to differentiate against the often-stuffy covers of similar podcast content whilst alluding to the playful delivery and nature of the recordings.
The designs shown above were the first round of outcomes - whilst they are attractive they remain quite neutral. It was a good chance to play with texture and colour, referencing the spoken nature of podcasts whilst remaining gender neutral for maximum appeal. Overall these designs are nice but lacked a real sense of character.
Second round of designs proved to be more characterful, but perhaps too much so. Whilst the lips were intended to highlight the playful 'scandal' nature of the podcasts I felt they could read a little too...provocatively. Again, this was playing to a fairly neutral gender colour-palette using bold typography and colours to compliment the look.
The final version of the overall design, as seen above, strikes a balance between the content and the nature of the overall podcast series. Still bold, bright and colourful yet quite simple with room for the text to breathe. In using the lips-to-ear graphic I felt it represented the nature of the podcast whilst creating a visual flow across the design. The ear bud was up for debate - deciding eventually to include it as a subtle nod to the nature of podcasts, also aiding in a sense of balance across the layout. In terms of colours the client felt the orange/yellow of the middle design worked best.
Great big thank you to the amazingly multi-talented Bridget Hamilton for the commission and for her permission to use this on my Behance. You can listen to the first episode of the series Rumout Has It (which details rumours of a hang-man in the family...) www.bridgethamilton.co.uk/
Thank you.
