Ancillary Designs Research

For both our magazine advertisement and album digipak, we wanted the background design to be vanilla flowers. Initially, it was for aesthetic purposes, as we thought a plain background would be too dark and uninteresting. Also, it would be a literal representation of the songs name of 'Vanilla'.

For synergy purposes, I then researched into vanilla flowers to see the meaning behind them, and if this would have a link to our music video, as we do not feature a vanilla flower in our promo.

Vanilla flowers are a species of orchid, and as there was not much meaning behind the vanilla flower, I decided to research into orchids.


Orchid Flower Colour Meanings

While all orchids symbolise love and beauty, the colour of the orchid can change the intended meaning of the flower/

• Blue - Represent rarity
• Red - Symbolise passion and desire, but also strength and courage
• Pink - Symbolise grace, joy and happiness, and also innocence and femininity
• White - Represent reverence and humility, innocence and purity, and elegance and beauty
• Purple - Symbolise admiration, respect, dignity, and royalty
• Yellow - Represent friendship, joy and new beginnings
• Orange - Symbolise enthusiasm, boldness and pride
• Green - Thought to bring good fortune and blessings, and represent good health, nature and longevity

The vanilla flower is between the colours of white and yellow, so I focused on them. 

White

• 'Humility' could relate to how the main protagonist in our video had so many rejections for producing her song, but her determination persisted. 
• 'Innocence' links to how she achieved her dream purely by herself, and faced the rejection but overcame them.

Yellow

• Specifically, 'New Beginnings' relates to the beginning of her music career after her first song was produced.