Manic Street Preachers – Post cards from a young man, a refreshing and honest reflection of the bands willingness and progression in music arranged into a clear understandable and hauntingly memorable magazine advert and album cover; when editing my own I wanted to incorporate the chilling details that go into making a very well composed Album cover and magazine advert.

The advert is simple, clean cut and has direct clear messages and pieces of information shown through strong bold type face with mild vintage fades to match its old and worn concept and theme, the Manic Street Preachers use a greyscale palette to represent the albums departure from their frequently heavy metal style sound and decided to go for a more radio focused direction

As James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire have described this album as “one last shot at mass communication” it is important for this advert and album to reach out and be visually pleasing to a wider audience; the approach is softer more refined then there past work and even though this album is a follow up to Journal for Plague Lovers the cover work doesn’t follow on from the intense painting style they previously used.