I have just created my first ever project. its a album from my favourite artist and i need help to improve it. Im using Canva.
I’m confused by this. Is it supposed to be an insert for a CD jewel case? If so, once folded, the track list would be upside down. And why isn’t the name of the band on the cover instead of only on the track list? And why isn’t the track list area also a square instead of a rectangle? Why is the name of track 15 running off the edge?
Maybe I’m misinterpreting the purpose of what you’ve created. If so, perhaps you could explain what you’ve designed. As I said, I’m confused about what you’ve designed and the purpose it’s supposed to serve.
Its supposed to be like an poster for an album to kinda hang on a wall or sum like that
You do a great job of using the main photo to drawn the attention of the viewer’s eye first thing. It is clearly the element at the top of your project’s hierarchy, especially as the rest of the designs colors feed off it. However, I would suggest using different a font size or typeface to clarify and separate the rest of the information. The album’s title, for example, seems to blend in to the song titles, which makes it a little chaotic and a bit difficult to understand. Using more space and a clearer hierarchy within the text could help with this.
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For a first ever project this is genuinely strong — the crumpled 100-euro note as the hero image is a great concept for an album full of money-themed tracks, and it genuinely pulls the eye first, like paigehenrik said. You’ve got instincts here. A few practical things that would lift it a level:
Watch your margins. The right-hand track column runs off the edge of the poster — “WIE FÜHLT SICH STERBEN AN” gets clipped at the margin. Always pull text blocks in from the edge and give everything a consistent inset; a poster that’s meant to hang on a wall gets looked at up close, and clipped text reads as a mistake instantly.
Protect your legibility. The white tracklist sits over a faded enlargement of the euro note, and the background texture fights with the text. A solid dark panel (or a dark translucent overlay) behind the tracklist would make all 17 titles crisp and let the busy imagery live in the top half where it belongs.
Tighten the two-column rhythm. The tracklist reads fine left-to-right, but check the leading and make sure both columns align to the same baseline grid — small inconsistencies in spacing become very visible once it’s printed large.
Mind the type sizes at print scale. What looks balanced on screen can feel cramped on a wall. If you can, print a test at full size (or tile it across A4 sheets) and view it from a few metres away — that’s the real test for a wall poster.
Keep going — concept, composition, and the confidence to post your first project for critique are the hard parts, and you clearly have those.
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From my point of view, you need to make structure: band name on the top, then title, after the picture and then the information. You can use any software as you want. Check other bands (CDs) to see how is structured and make your modifications. You can see some examples from here: https://www.discogs.com