- Experiment with
Extreme crops
Complex overlays
Different colour combinations
Bitmap
Grids
Simple / extreme compositions
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
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 paperBjorks 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 :)
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)
stop working and go for a drink (do something else)
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