What do you prefer to see on a CD cover band or illustration?

We felt this was an important feature CD cover, this is the first thing your eyes will be drawn to when you see the CD. Therefore needs to be unique and different and also eye catching when sitting on a shelf, as there is hundreds of other ones already out there so it needs to look appealing. When we asked this question we wanted to know what our audience thought would look better, they said band- we as a group agreed with this also as this identifies who the band is when you purchase the CD and you can also recognise the band from this. Along with this it portrays the type of genre that your band is, by with the style and stance of the photograph that is placed on the front. We were pleased that an illustration didn’t get chose as we also felt that an illustration wouldn’t look as good as a band photograph, even though it would be more eye catching it would be hard to come up with a design that would be appropriate for our genre, album and the band itself. So we will be going along with the idea of the band picture.