Quirky Underscores

Here is a recent album cover for EMI, part of their KPM range of promotional CDs that are sent out to production companies for use in their ads or programmes. This one, Quirky Underscores contains light, charming, quirky classical music.  The brief was to re-work a really lovely vintage Russian circus poster, which I was given as inspiration. 

Secret 7" artwork

Following on from last year, Secret 7" is back but in a slightly different format... The idea is the same - artists and designers are asked to design Seven inch record sleeves for one of seven tracks. The name of the artist or track must not appear on the artwork, hence the 'secret' part. This year's list includes tracks by Nick Drake, Laura Marling, Nas, Jessie Ware and Haim. All submissions can be seen on the Talenthouse website, where people can vote for their favourites...The top 50 in each category will be exhibited at Mother Ad agency, and then auctioned for the charity 'Art Against Knives'. Here is my artwork for Nick Drake's 'Rider on the Wheel' and you can vote for it here. Please vote if you like my image (or even if you don't)! Thank you kindly.

Work for EMI

Here are two recent CD cover designs I have produced for EMI music. The Christmas one was done back in August when the weather was warm and sunny and the Olympics were on in the background. Seems so long ago now! Both are promotional CDs of incidental mood music that are sent out to production companies for them to use in their ads or programmes.

Secret 7" exhibition

Last month I took part in an exhibition of seven inch record sleeves at Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch. Around 700 designs were on show, each inspired by one of seven tracks by The Cure, Florence and the Machine, Bombay Bicycle club, Noah and the Whale, Ben Howard, CSS and DJ Shadow. Similar to the RCA's secret postcard exhibition, the artist's names were not revealed until a piece was bought - whereupon the purchaser could find the name of the artist hidden inside, plus a limited edition vinyl of the relevant track. My chosen track was 'Black flies' by Ben Howard and the artwork is inspired by the lyric 'Maybe you were the ocean when I was just a stone'. Sleeves were sold in aid of the Teenage Cancer trust.

Boogie Woogie time!

I was recently asked to produce some visuals for Eagle Rock Entertainment for an album called the A B C and D of Boogie Woogie - so called because the names of the musicians begin with the letters A B C & D, one of them being Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones. Here are my covers - unfortunately they decided to go with a photographic solution in the end, but I really enjoyed working on the project and it was great to try my hand at sleeve design, something I haven't done much of before.