DR ME Talk

- Experiment with 
Extreme crops
Complex overlays 
Different colour combinations
Bitmap
Grids 
Simple / extreme compositions

Their inspirations: 

- Vaughan Oliver - Pixies 

“The back cover is as important as the front cover” 
This makes the whole package sing and gives more visual language to what you try to represent 

- Hypnosis - Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd 

Anti-record company, well thought through design 

- There's not that much money in record cover design, have to adapt to that. Changed the way that record sleeves are designed

- Talking heads - remaining light 

- Mollie Neilson

Always screenprinted, always monotone and symbolic, always approaches a different artist 

- Skeletons: People 

- David Rudnick 

Super cheap stickers with blank white cover 

Their own work:

- The Dutch Uncles 

The medium of collage, not flat, hand made 

Representative of the music 

Everything is tactile and handmade 

- Triangle Records 

Experimental, dark 

Always print things out and scan back it, grainy tactile qualities from the printer and shitty bit of paper
Bjorks album covers - cinematic, dark 

- That’s Harakidi

Leaving in the red lines 

- Evian Christ 

Kanye, Bjork 

Influenced by an over horizon radar that detected planes coming in during the Cold War

Listen to the music over and over, make a playlist of that sound 

- Concrete poetry - Dom Sylvester 

- Plastic bag - screen print type or pattern onto it 

- Iterate - there’s power in having more than one idea. If you think you’ve made something good, put it aside and make something else 

- England Lost - Mick Jagger 

Make work that you want to see as the cover and be respectful to what others will want 

- “The best form of affordable artwork everyone can buy is a 12” by 12” vinyl” - they try to not include the track title and artist name for this reason 

- e zine - electronic extra 

- How they manage their time:
lists :) 

Break up the time into smaller deadlines (false deadlines) 

- Go to process to approach a brief: 

Sketchbook - thumbails of ideas 

Collage, scanning, print things out to scale 

Don’t go to the computer straight away, jot down ideas, go for a walk. Experiment - use different tools 

- When they're stuck for ideas
stop working and go for a drink (do something else)