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Blackstar ★

The artwork for the late David Bowie’s new album Blackstar is simple, clean and current. With a dark connotation running throughout the design it's clear to see that this album came from the very essence of David's imminent death; listening to the songs myself I felt that most lyrics were also geared in this way.


I researched into the album and discovered the graphics for the material related to the pre release and cover for the album were created by Jonathan Barnbrook. He mentions in an interview with Creative Review that 'We are assaulted by thousands of images of different ideologies everyday – and the only way to break through this is with simplicity and clarity'. I think this is a perfect statement to describe the world of design today, often designs can become overcrowded with complex editing work and saturated colour palettes so it is refreshing to see a design that us stripped back to it's core, using basic geometric shapes and black and white colouring.



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