Design DRAMA!

Well i am in a rut.......however perhaps "rut" is not the best word to describe how terribly STUCK i am....

I have tried to work through a few different layout designs and concepts, and nothing i have done thus far is really exciting me. I am not feeling it, none of my designs are motivating me. I am not sure how and where to place the pictures, where to place the text, the size of elements, color options. I'm just totally overwhelmed, confused and just not sure......

I just feel that i don't have enough content to create a book of substance and creative value. I feel its to simple....

Reg HELP! im in need of a MAJOR design breakthrough and miracle.

Moving forward....

At least thats what in trying to do when it comes to my book. I have however made some progress, and some major changes. After a discussion with Reg, i decided that im going to scratch the "English professor" narrative and take a different approach. I have decided that i am going to still hold to my initial idea of "pairing" images of different album covers together, but not just two at a time, sometimes 3, 4, even 1 at a time to mix things up and keep interests peaked. However, instead of the "scholarly" narrative in my original thinking, im going to take a more abstract and creative approach to the narrative. I'm thinking that i would use certain words, phrases and spliced lyrics from certain songs that would create a story/relationship/stimulated meanings between the selected images on the page. I am aiming for a funky design both graphically and typographically.

These are my thoughts, lets see how they come to fruition....

Stay tuned!