Photo from the Neighbourhood’s “I Love You” album cover. 2013.

I decided to use album covers from my favorite bands for this blog assignment. For the geometric pattern, I chose the album cover for the Neighbourhood’s 2013 “I Love You.” I listen to them almost everyday so I often see this cover on my phone. The cover uses an alignment where the three symbols displayed on the cover are in a straight line positioned in the same scale and proximity. They are of equal distance from each other. The symbols are geometric because they are more angular and they are representation of an object. The house is made of square shapes and displayed upside down. The Heart is a generic icon heart that everyone thinks is a heart but in reality a heart is round and looks more like a clenched up fist. Lastly the upside triangle has an eye on it, the triangle contains the eye and the Pattern is in the back and is made of clouds. The pattern is organic because we tend to think of organic things of nature. The clouds are more curvilinear and they feel like they haven’t been altered nor made unrealistic. The pattern is also organic because clouds are abstract and not necessarily symmetrical, not all clouds have the same form.

Imagine Dragon’s “Night Visions” album cover. 2012.

For my second image, I used Imagine Dragon’s Night Vision album cover. I chose this image because I think it is one of the best releases of this century and because it blends geometric and organic pattern. The rocks on the album provide a pattern effect on the lower half of the album cover. Even though those are rocks, it doesn’t necessarily make them organic. I think they are more geometric because the rocks are shaped to be pentagons and have hard edges than a rock is supposed to have. The rocks are edited to be consistent and similar to one another. They are used repeated over again to make a pattern. The overall cover gives off an organic feel to it but if you analyze the pattern of the rocks, they are geometric through symmetry and balance.