Great design.
For what it's worth, I think you should use the warmer tones

Brown is more smoky - my preference. But hey if you like them both make it two releases; special limited-edition blue re-release with bonus live tracks... ha / i love that we can just make this stuff up

Took the words out of my mouth, Rod.
I dig both. I couldn't choose which one to be the main design. If I were to BUY it, I like cold blue.

Excellent capture.

Or just make it a 2 CD set, Like back in the day when Guns and Roses made 'Use Your Illusion 1 & 2' They had a warm tone for 1 and a cool tone for 2.

hehe, great minds think alike ... i was also thinking about a double-cd ... but wouldn't bend that the ONE-cover-rule a bit far?
i'll ask the big kahuna ( kittyKat)

good luck to ya'

Looks GREAT to me
good luck hun!!!!

Holy CRAP that's one fantastic cover. Looks absolutely fabulous. As for me, I'd choose the warmer colours on the left. A bit more original. Both look great though!

both look good but i think the warmer tone would do better.

Pretty cool design... I find the cold version more interesting.

The back cover is excellent, very dynamic... while the front cover is ok, but lack something to be as strong as the back one....

Well designed and developed idea. Darker toned version fits more closely with your intended music genre quite well. Smoke twirling about works good in terms of imagery, but choice of typography does not meld the two aspects together in a comprehensive manner. Use of bold fonts with muted color works, but the portion that states, "lounge obsculte", becomes lost in spacial competition with the dark areas of smoke nearby it. If those words were put white rather than black may allow them to have more presence and impact when viewed. Well done.

very nice design. Very proffesional looking.

Both are gorgeous...and both give different feelings....I have a preference for the blue one just because it makes me feel like I'm being immersed in misty frosty water like stuff...and seeing as I consider lounge kind of liquid, I find it fits....

I happen to think the falling text works for this...

Beautiful presentation!

Oh, just to say, maybe you should include one on a CD case seeing as we're supposed to do so? I don't think any of the images you've provided show them as looking like a real CD.

yeah2 both are good!!....mm i vote for the cold version.. goodluck!!

I like the warm tones better...but either way it's a great design...mind you I didn't know 'falling script was a no-no'...so what do I know!!!...lol

Good luck in the comp!

thats kick ass cd cover art! yeah, Im going for the warmer one too. great work! i love it! btw, with what program did you create this?

wow ... thank you ... i wish i would get that helpful critique for my photographs *ducks and hides*
well, concerning your questions:
 kemp - you are right - it's boring. thats why i used it: calm front to not let the caption text be drowned by the pic.
 loneorbit - the fonts issue was the hardest while working on this. i tried white text but it looked even more lost. used it on the cd instead. i think the dark font-background gives enough attention to the album title.
 silken - kittykat said it was ok. i got the choose-what-to-use section in the lower third and meassurements are ok, so...
 WarrenLouw - only photoshop. the pictures are some of my own long exposure photographs, digitally altered.

thanks again for your many kind words and sugestions. maybe i'll rework some parts if i have time. but school's starting again on monday so my personal life is ending again

cheers, daniela

The warm tones.
Good job

Great design! I think the blue tones works better good luck!

OK....I thought we all HAD to put them in cases....I though the OK was to display both colors.

The cold ones =P

Nice work there.

Good luck!!

i'm in agreement with wysiwyg here...it would be a great idea to make a 2cd album
both colour schemes work excellently, and the smooth shapes look brilliant

nice work....i llove the blue one....
really liked the smoke on the back side of cover,all the best +9

i so like it ... +8

Great artwork, nice colors... looking professional!

GOOD LUCK!

the one to the right.... wooh' hardcore s!*t.... like it very much! cYa all at the finnish line....

Holy crap...major is right...I LOVE the new version...it's wonderful and I love how you made the white text work....it looks GREAT.

Nice presentation. Good luck.

nice smoky theme!

nice atmosphere, nice colors and something wicked.

cool...i realy like it...

Nice colors : )
Even that I liked them both : ) , but part one seems more applicable for publishing porpose. I'll go for this choice.
good luck in the contest.

Dho,

perfect colors and good design.

smokin'
good stuff . 8/10

wow!