Today we received a package from Japan! It was a handful of copies of the album Parallel/serial by Japanese post-rock band number0, that we have designed the artwork for. The album was released this April, and we’ve been very exited to see how the colours turned out – we are very happy with the result.
The artwork is made of spraypainted glas layered with little pieces of patchwork fabric in between. We’ll post some process photos of how it was made very soon! We also designed the sleeve for the EP Returning.
This is the sleeve for the EP returning.
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After a long wait, Turboweekend is finally back with new music. First single On My Side will be released this Wednesday in a special live stream directly from the band’s website at 8 pm!
Again we have made the artwork, for this single as well as for the album that will be released this summer. We used dynamic paint brush strokes and a beautiful photo from the famous magical mountain landscape in California called Artist’s Palette. The photo is taken by Hans Kruse, our favorite landscape photographer and Sofie’s father.
Remember to tune in on www.turboweekend.com on Wednesday at 8 pm, for a special preview of 3 new Turboweekend songs!
Just received a couple of cd’s of Clogs member Rachael Elliott’s solo project! We made the cover a few months ago and the album is really fantastic. Read more about the Bassoon project here.
Today Rumraket is Releasing Canon Blue’s album Rumspringa in Scandinavia, so for this occasion we bring you a few making-of photos! And some photos of the package. Read more about the Release on Efterklang’s website, or on Rumraket, where you can purchase a copy of the CD. Also see canonblue.com.
Here’s the album cover we recently did for Canon Blue’s upcoming album Rumspringa, to be released August on Temporary Residence in the US and on Rumraket in Scandinavia. A nice chance to practice our log cabin quilting skills! It’s a wonderful album, so we highly recommend that you go out and get yourself a copy once it’s out! See more images on our work site.
Happy New Year!
After lovely holidays to the countryside in Denmark, Sweden and Lisbon over Christmas and New Years, we have now resumed work again at full speed!
Last Friday our friend Brian Buchard took studio photographs of some work we have been busy preparing for Canon Blue’s upcoming album that will be released later this year. We are now in the process of finishing the artwork and layouting the cover. More to come soon!
The album is absolutely brilliant, so look forward to hearing it when it’s out later this year.
Check out Canon Blue’s previous work here.
Creative Review – Record Sleeves of the month
Posted by HvassHannibal on February 11th 2010 in Publications, Things we like
Gavin Lucas from Creative Review was kind to include our two latest album covers – Magic Chairs by Efterklang, and The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton by Clogs – in his CR Blog post “Record sleeves of the month”. Here you can also see some lovely cover design by Sawdust, Hendrik Weber, Nick Gill and Daley Walton. (Wonder if Daley is related to Lady Walton?)
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We have just added new work to our website, the artwork for Clogs newly released EP, Veil Waltz. Have a look here.
Behind the scenes of Magic Chairs cover
Posted by HvassHannibal on January 29th 2010 in Projects, Work in progress
It seems that there has been some talk about how we actually made the cover for Efterklang’s album, Magic Chairs. For instance, our intern Mikkel from Bergen Kunsthøgskole told us that his class had discussed it and had reached the conclusion that it must be computer generated 3D graphics! This is not quite the case… Without revealing too much, here are some behind-the-scenes photos from our preparations and from the actual photo shoot.
We produced the ribbons ourselves, dying textiles and sewing everything by hand. Gry Rasmussen, who was our intern at the time and has a BA in textile design from Kolding Design School, helped us figure out how to dye the fabric in all imaginable colours. Before the actual shoot, all the ribbons were taken out on a test drive in our courtyard and in the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen.
It was a difficult task finding the right place to shoot the cover photo. We had been all over Copenhagen, and finally we found the perfect place: in the courtyard of Thorvaldsen’s Museum. The museum houses nearly all of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen’s original models of sculptures he created for numerous European countries. We fell for the architectural lines, the mixture of neoclassicism and orientally inspired details. Together with the ribbons we thought it made a really striking combination of colours and monumental lines. Thorvaldsen was actually buried in the middle of the courtyard, beneath the plant in the middle.
On the day of the shoot there was a fair amount of panic, because it was raining and the courtyard was completely wet, which was something we hadn’t intended at all. Efterklang made a desperate attempt at scraping and drying water off the floor while rain kept falling. (Imagine trying to wipe a 300 square meter bathroom floor dry while the shower is on, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of how hopeless this was). All the ribbons got soaked and were way too heavy, so the 20 invisible gymnasts that we had assembled from all over town had a hard time making them fly. But as it turned out, the wet floor is a huge asset for the final image, giving it a glassy and surrealist feel. So for those of you who might have thought it to be marble, we can reveal that it’s only wet tar…
The final album cover is the result of 1 month of intense work! The photo is taken by our long time collaborator Brian Buchard. We’ll give you a little introduction to him soon…
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