CD cover analysis

Guns and Roses are a very well known and established band, Their CD cover expresses this as around the main centre image it is blank and nothing is used around the outside of this image to promote the band anymore. The centre image shows two guns with two roses with the vines of the roses wrapping around the two guns, This image is a literal translation of their name from writing to an image, This I assume was used because the CD is Guns and Roses greatest hits, there is not a specific theme they are following for the album and this has given them the opportunity to promote their own name on their CD cover in this image form. The CD cover has a black and grey theme to it as almost everything is in black and grey, this allows the Roses which are in colour to stand out very boldly with the strong red and green colours, this draws your attention to the centre image ignoring the space around the outside. The typography shows a very bold text which stands out but still has its sleak slim effect, the particular guns used in this image you would imagine to be very old, they have that western ‘cowboy’ style to them and the writing used almost seems to copy this theme a you could imagine this type of writing on the classic ‘Wanted’ posters. The grey background has this wavy gradient to it where the grey fades into black at particular areas around the CD cover across the edges, I think the grey background is meant to almost look like metal as it has the brushstrokes look across the background making it seem like a metal material, the gradient fills make it also seem this way and the text of “Greatest Hits” seems like it has been engraved onto the CD cover. Overall this is a very effective CD cover used to promote the Band through an image for their greatest hits CD.