Mika CD Cover

The CD cover is bold and flamboyant, making its genre, which is pop, very clear and it also creates a happy atmosphere. The cover mixes reality with cartoon, this theme goes well with the title of the album ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ .The images are very random but I think they show a life cycle, which relates back to the title. The image of the doll represents childhood, whilst the young girl with the revealing short dress represents adolescence and the cartoon of the man in the suit represents adulthood. This suggests that the album is aimed at different ages making it to appeal to a mainstream audience. The bright colours and images of the piano and flowers show certain characteristics of Mika It portrays him to be fun, musically talented and hippy-like as the flowers, dove and rainbow colours are related to the hippy movement. The drawings are also very childlike which suggests the album is aimed at young audiences. There are random arrows around the CD cover pointing the audience’s attention to all over the CD. A small image of Mika is included, which is featured in a different colour scheme but still following the cartoon theme. The image is in a sepia tone because these colours are different from the bright cover, it allows it to stand out and draws the audience’s attention towards it. Mika's name is in large bold white writing that dominates most of the centre of the cover once again drawing attention to his name in order for audiences to recognise who the album is by. The name of his album ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ is in much smaller text and fits in with the CD cover as it almost looks like a doodle.

The back of the cover incorporates the same theme as the front cover with, include similar pictures and font the running continuity of the theme makes the CD as one because if the back cover was completely different it would seem like two different CD’s. This also makes it easy to recognise who the album is by. 

Overall the front cover has high artistic and creativity values suggesting that the songs within the album also have high production values. The whole CD cover is like a scrapbook with random ideas of Mika’s ideas, metaphorically a CD can be seen as a scrapbook book as it expresses the artist’s ideas.