Hvass&Hannibal » Magic Chairs

Danke Schön

HvassHannibal — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:23:13 +0000

Groove Magazine in Germany, writes that Efterklang’s Magic Chairs cover is one of the ten best covers of 2010. Thank you Groove Magazine!

Gaffa

HvassHannibal — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:45:34 +0000

Here are some recent articles about us and some of our music related work in the Danish music magazine Gaffa.
(Sorry, but they are in Danish of course…)

Hvass&Hannibal – Designduo med succes
Undercover – Magic Chairs

And here’s an old one about the Turboweekend cover:

Undercover – Ghost of a Chance

An old photo from the making of Turboweekend’s first album cover, Nightshift

Photoshoot with Efterklang

HvassHannibal — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:17:00 +0000

Yesterday we went out to The Lab, a huge photo studio in Copenhagen, with Efterklang and photographer Rasmus Weng Carlsen, to shoot the next cover photo for a Danish music magazine. Here are some of our snapshots from the day.

We brought all the ribbons from the Magic Chairs album cover that we designed, and Efterklang brought a lot of bright, colorful clothes. Rasmus tried some different shots, but we don’t know which of them will make it to the cover… We’re hoping for ribbons!

Yesterday was also the release day of Efterklang’s new album Magic Chairs, so we celebrated with champagne!

Visit Rasmus Weng Karlsens site here.

Efterklang Release Party

HvassHannibal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:16:04 +0000

The release of Magic Chairs is very near, and Efterklang are throwing a release party at Global in Copenhagen. Come by and celebrate with them, and with us! There will be live concerts with Frederik Teige, Peter & Heather Broderick and Slaraffenland!
February 18th at Global (near Skt. Hans Torv) from 20 – 01.

Creative Review – Record Sleeves of the month

HvassHannibal — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:55:42 +0000

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?)

Behind the scenes of Magic Chairs cover

HvassHannibal — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:05:45 +0000

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…