The Wicker Man 7" Yellow Vinyl For Record Store Day 2012

Photos of newly produced artwork for a special edition yellow 7" vinyl of two tracks from the original soundtrack of 1973 film 'The Wicker Man' (Side A: Willow's Song / Side B: Gently Johnny).

Using original imagery from the film and creating a layout that reflected vintage vinyl sleeve culture, I went to work on subtly making the sleeve design look worn and fire-damaged, as though the artefact itself was a survivor of the burning of the wicker man.

The final payoff being the unusual yellow coloured vinyl, giving the package a beautifully psychedelic vibe.

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Meanwhile in Berlin...

I was recently in Berlin with my girlfriend when we walked into a German entertainment store and stumbled upon these... nice surprise! Danke Berlin!

'The Music of John Williams' Box Set Artwork

Design and artwork for "The Music of John Williams - The Definitive Collection" 6 CD box set.
 

As part of a celebration of prolific film composer John Williams, I was fortunate enough to work on producing artwork for a special 80th birthday edition box set of his most famous pieces, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter to name but a few.

With these titles in mind I went to work on creating scenes from the heavens in specific colour pallets according to the film scores on each disc (because with an 88 track collection your going to need a colour key)!

Part of the project was to design an accompanying mini site for the release, where you can find out more information and get free downloads: www.definitivejohnwilliams.com 

Robinson Crusoe limited edition 7 inch vinyl

Desert Island Discs: Here is the finished product of a limited edition 7 Inch vinyl I designed recently. The pressing is aimed at collectors and fans of the 60's BBC television series The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, which includes original music from the show performed by The Robert Merlin Orchestra. The limited run of 300 pressings are available to purchase from Silva Screen Records.

Typographic Terrain - Star Wars Homage

After recently purchasing a set of typographic A-Z cake cutters, I've had all sorts of mad ideas as to what to do with them. Above is the first of these ideas, a homage to the environments and terrain found on different planets in Star Wars. Materials used: sugar, coarse turf and Bournemouth beach sand.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - physical album design

UK cover

US cover

Psst... Design and layout for the physical album release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Welcome to the shady world of British Cold War espionage! Adopting the look and feel of the movie's promotional campaign, I had to devise a murky, secretive world for Alberto Iglesias's splendid soundtrack, full of the film's stills and behind the scene shots, drawing on the confidential nature of piecing together evidence and delicate information, and pulling together an overview of the film and soundtrack's feeling of tension and paranoia. Available from Silva Screen Records. But you didn't hear any of this from me...

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Music From The Transformers Trilogy - physical album design

Album design for 'Music From The Transformers Trilogy'. With this release I used a combination of subtle image based references to the Transformers films (glowing mechanical eyes and metallic-looking cosmic spheres) along with 3D, mechanised, angular pieces of typographic shapes, seemingly fitting together to form letterforms and whole words in a similar action to that of an Autobot changing form.

The letterforms began as a study of the type of typography associated with the Transformers films (very prominent and blocky, with straight edges and sharp corners) and then modified so that each letter fit next to each other to make up words and complete titles, as if each letter was a component forming a whole. In some cases geometric pieces of type were arrange to look like they were constructing / deconstructing 3D letter blocks themselves, creating almost illegible, alien looking symbols and glyphs.

Album available from Silva Screen Records