mohair_printwork
officer kicks_record sleeve
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mogul_motion graphics
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the pony collaboration_printwork
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following on from the initial artwork we provided for
their debut album, we teamed up with the pony collaboration once again
to provide artwork for their promo single 'the fast
lane'. in conjunction with the promo only cd release, a digital version
of the single will be available on iTunes soon with their exclusive
b-side 'all I know
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protomen_record sleeve
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the pony collaboration_record sleeve
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james, the head of the pony collaboration, came to us with a few photographs he had sourced as a starting point for the art direction on their second album. visually, the route we took was to show the new album as reflection of their first. this is especially apparent with the cd itself which reflects a more sombre outlook than the jolly pink one from their first release. both james and version wanted to take the visual cues from the first album and reflect it as if seen in a forgotten dirtied mirror, very much like the source photography he gave us.
their new album is out now on series 8 records. the new digital single will be out in may 2010.
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65daysofstatic_record sleeve
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polinski_record sleeve + music video
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the discussions for how to handle the artwork for the album started years before the record was even a twinkle in his eye. we'd talked at length for years about films, musics, books, games and designs that appeal to us for whatever reason. whether it be the books of jeff noon or the cassette loading games of sinclair zx spectrum, there was an innate understanding of what this solo project would demand in terms of artwork the moment the demos started to come together.
the final artwork started with us coming up with a story that would capture paul's feelings about various things and how he wanted to translated those into a science fiction tale of some kind. the next step was padding that story out with various touchstone visual elements and then translating those into a series of panels that we could use for the album and any singles. the first image we put together turned out to be the album cover as it is now, and this went onto influence paul's approach to making the music. he then sent us more demos that inspired the creation of more panels, and so the back and forth went until we had enough to illustrate the story / world we had created.
the music video for the album's first single, stitches, was an attempt to bring back the feeling of using the zx spectrum computer, whilst detailing some of the album's narrative elements. more details on the making of the video to follow soon.
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