C-16 // Universal Children's Audio
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 2:19PM Universal Children's Audio (UCA) are an audio recording company that specialises in producing quality music for children. They have been around for over 20 years, and over that time have won many awards, both national and international, for the excellent products they produce.
About 18 months ago they underwent a major re-branding and realised that many of their existing albums would need to be re-designed to fit their new brand. I already had a working relationship with them as one of their regular session musicians, but they also knew of my interest in graphic design (I am self-taught) and liked some covers I had designed previously. I was asked to begin working through their back catalog, transforming old cd covers (and even some cassettes!) into nice shiny CD packages with new updated colours and the new UCA logo and brand. New products needing cover design would also be likely to come up from time to time. Of course I was very happy to do the work as it fitted my level of skill and experience, and I have been contracting my services to them fairly regularly ever since.
Recently I've been working on two digipak covers for a brand new product range they are developing. I finished them last week and they are currently up at Stebbing getting manufactured. I'm quite proud of them, actually. I won't post them here until the albums are properly released and available, but in the meantime here's a selection of some of the other covers I have put together for UCA over the last year and a half. Remember - not all of the imagery is original or mine. In many cases I am simply cutting up existing artwork and rearranging it. In these examples there are some illustrations that I scanned and modified to suit, and there are a few stock photos/vectors too. (Just clarifying to avoid any misunderstandings!)
Illustrator, UCA, Universal Children's Audio, album cover, photoshop in C-365
Reader Comments (3)
nice :) I look forward to seeing what you come up with for Hogsnort Rupert featuring Sunbird7 "Hypnotic" :)
choice one
I want to sing along with teddy!
Sorry. It's for age 2–5 years only. Any other use is against the Geneva convention.