I was pretty excited for a few weeks at the beginning of the summer. I had an opportunity to do some comps for Melissa Etheridge’s upcoming holiday release, A New Thought For Christmas (released 9/30/08). The theme was global peace and tolerance. I came up with an iconic solution, which I can’t say I’ve seen before. A simple, graphic Christmas tree made out of peace signs. Melissa saw my comps and was thrilled to choose this one for the cover. I was psyched to think that I could add this to my collection of rocking holiday CDs!
About six weeks later, I got the unfortunate news from the Island Records representative that they decided to go with something else. C’est la vie.
While I admit their design is quite nice, I think my design would have looked way cooler featured in the iTunes music store. What do you think?
