album cover designing and development

I have drawn up some little ideas which I have done for the album cover. I have look through a book called Hand Job, A Catalogue of Type by Michael Perry and I cam across a lot of inspiration for ideas for the cover but also for this to maybe evolve in to a logo. I think that even though I have designed a few ideas for logos that even if I come up with something in my album designing that could become a logo I would rather go with something where I could match everything up and to use what the client liked best.

Here are the few hand drawn ideas that I have come up with:

I am really pleased with these ideas and I am just waiting to hear back from my client about what he thinks of the ideas and whether there is any changes in which he would like. I think that it is more important to get the clients approval first just before I go ahead and develop these ideas futher. I am finding it quite difficult to get these answers at the moment as the client is also a student and so its hard to get a reply. 

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I have made a decision that if my client doesn't get back to me within the next day I will go ahead with what I think would work best as I have a deadline to meet also. 

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I have come up with quite a few ideas from my drawings. I have also done a few collages which I really like. I have heard from my client via facebook and he likes quite a few of these ideas. He has asked to use imagery found on the internet but I have been in contact with my tutor who gave me some guidelines about the copyright rules with this project which outlines that I cannot just use imagery that has been found on the internet like google where the client sent the image from. 

These are a few of the ideas that have been developed during talks with the client.

This tea stained image is the one from the internet. The client is asking me to create the teastain myself but I have sent him a few ideas to consider before I do this as from my point of view it does't seem exciting and so I feel like there is more potential from this. 

I really like this idea, I think the effect in the back ground works well, just as well as the tea stain.

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Here are my collage ideas:

This is the idea that I have come up with by using the collage piece that I created from magazines. I really like this and I think that it would really work quite cleverly as an album cover. The only think that I am worried about with this one is that there isn't much space for me to have the typography where as the hand drawn piece that I have created is all about the type but is also pleasing to look at.

I am waiting to hear from client to see what they think about the ideas and what they prefer.