dj spreads and covers, round 1

we were to choose one of our artifacts and try on 5 different spreads, and 5 different cover possibilities.
these were my 5 covers:

i learned a bit too late that oughtn't have used images of our artifacts on our covers, so my use of speakers, records, and the record player was not so clever. jamie liked the blackout font of "remix", and also the idea of the scratching.

for my layouts, i chose headphones as my artifact to work with, which may or may not have been a good idea, but i ended up with 5 spreads nevertheless. they are as follows!

the first two were eliminated pretty easily. jamie thought the last two, while not terribly successful right off the bat, had good potential. the third one? it was, of course, my favourite. i based it off equalizer bars on sound equipment. but it wasn't working. so i tried, and tried, and it still didn't work. i decided to work with the last layout, based off the 8-grid. two rows, four columns.