The artist name and album title are rectangular blocks that give us both the horizontal and the vertical directions. I like the different directional elements that these two titles offer and they balance each other out very well as two objects perpendicular with each other. If both titles were either both vertical or both horizontal these design wouldn't be as successful because the two titles would no longer balance each other out and fill the correct spaces as they do now.
2. Texture
If you look closely, the white background of the image is not a plain white background, but a dusty off white color with the circular wear and tear marks of an old record sleeve from 1971. The designer included these wear and tear marks in the design to simulate that of a vintage record because the music enclosed in the cover was made with many vintage musical instruments and also contains many 1970's soul samples. Apart from its associations with the music, I think that this texture serves as a much more interesting backdrop to the text and image than would a plain color background and also gives the entire piece a bit more dimension to a design that would otherwise be overly flat.
3. Dot
The dot is used in this album cover to represent a profile photo of the artist in half-tone. Different sizes of dots and their relative locations are used to represent gradients and shading. I really like this style and the way the image is broken up into individual parts and we are still able to recognize this collection of dots as a cohesive piece. This half tone pattern is much more interesting and eye catching than a normal photograph because we are able to see this image not only as a whole but also able to see its individual parts.
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