This has been a small “special project” I was working on recently, when Maroon 5 issued a challenge to designers to design an artistically impactful version of their album cover for “V”. Please view the original image below for the band’s recent studio release

Maroon 5’s cover for their September 2014 Studio Album, 

The contest parameters for the re-design were wide open, so I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate Maroon 5’s dynamic M logo into a design that basically stripped away the extra elements and just focused on what the band is good at — making crisp, clean and sleek pop music that is easily relatable to their fanbase. In doing so, I rendered this alternate cover for the competition.

My rendering of an alternate cover for Maroon 5’s studio album, “V”

Overall I’m proud of how my design turned out. One of the few guidelines provided by Creative Allies in their prompt was that entrants couldn’t use band members likenesses. This may have been an area I would’ve chosen to incorporate but otherwise, this is how I’d envision a CD cover for the band’s strong 5th album.

Comments? Questions? Complains? I welcome them all! Thank you very much for your time