Vast - Music For People

This is the album cover for "Music for People" by the band Vast.

Ever since I first saw this album in the year 2000 I was not only impressed by the music but also the design of the cover and the typography. I find the image on the cd cover of the flower and the snake to be quite powerful, snakes are sometimes seen as quite evil creatures while flowers are seen to be beautiful so seeing them both together is quite a contrast.

The designs function i so portray the music, which I think it has done successfully. Vast's music is a mixture of quite heavy rock and ambient strings,  so the image of the snake and flower seems to be i visual example of this noise.

I originally saw the album in a cd store and I decided to buy having known how fantastic Vast's music is. 

The album cover is well designed with the simplicity and the colour of the typography. Im a huge fan of the typography behind "Vast." I love how parts of each letter isn't visible yet it can still be easily read, this has fascinated me since I first saw it. It is my most influential form of typography to me. I was attracted to the piece because of the music and the great typography.