atlas's supa melodic CD Coasters - Design Tech Project
My project consists of four acrylic 3.5-inch coasters with a design of a CD on the top. Each coaster/CD is a different color with a design inspired by some of my favorite albums (including one from my band, Crash Radish!!). I made sure to use a piece of the cover art to bring some attention to the original, along with using a color closest to one on the album. The albums I chose were Fandom by Waterparks, which is green with the band's logo, Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. by Hunny, which is orange, and has the font from the original album cover, boy by 2hollis, which is blue and has the + motif and the rays of light from the cover, and Spiramen Regia by Crash Radish (I wrote this!), which is pink with the radish design of our logo. I started with a base that was a circle with a 3.5-inch diameter, and a .75-inch diameter hole in the center. Then, to resemble the usually clear center piece on CDs, I made sure that each coaster had a 1.5-inch shallowly-engraved circle in the middle. The ou...