Album Cover Art
New “The Silent P Is For Poster” Book Coming Soon!
Over two years in the making, and covering over 13 years of creating art and design for the music industry. With stories, insights and printing details that music and poster fans alike will enjoy. Includes gorgeous live band photography to introduce each year by some of today’s best shooters. With a Foreword by Jeff Tweedy…
Read MoreEmpire Circus ‘Making of’ album Music Documentary
We are sharing a 6 part music documentary here that our great mates at Empire Circus made with the supremely talented folks at Design For Life in Dublin, Ireland. Take a few moments and enjoy these beautifully made short stories, all 6 are below. If you’d like to support great art, go buy the album…
Read MoreThe Wilco Album You’ve Never Heard Of.
Before Wilco’s great 2011 album had the name “The Whole Love”, it had a completely different working title…”Get Well Soon Everybody”. I know this because we were asked to submit some concepts for the album in the early stages of the as-yet announced release. Kept under wraps for obvious reasons since 2011, we think it’s…
Read MoreTools of the Trade…
Here’s a little preview from a photo shoot we did with Darin Back recently. Darin has shot a lot of photos of a lot of things, many of which are people, like Paul Westerburg (best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements), Charlie Mars, Mark Olson (one of the founding members…
Read MoreSpecial Edition “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” T-shirt
To celebrate Record Store Day coming up on April 19th, 2014, we will be releasing one special edition version of the “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” t-shirt theme. The original can be seen here. The new one will be one of these, you’ll just have to wait to see which one…or which two? Here’s a…
Read MoreRobert Rauschenberg + The Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues
For a fan of unique music and great art, it doesn’t get much better than this: David Byrne asked fellow NYC artists Robert Rauschenberg (one of our personal faves) to design his band’s release “Speaking In Tongues” album (one of our personal faves too!). “I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover…I…
Read MoreUnpublished.
There are times during the course of a creative project where you end up with lots of unpublished and unused designs that sadly never see the light of day. Quite some time ago we were approached by a client to produce some album art for a recording artist that was on their roster. After getting…
Read MoreThe Making of an Album Cover
We wanted to share with you some of the creative process and behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating an album cover design, this one was for one our faves, Farewell Milwaukee, who just released “Can’t Please You, Can’t Please Me (get it here!). The band had a fairly tight concept for this one, so we…
Read MoreHey, Looky Here: The Silent P’s Pfoto Contest!
We are having a photo contest peeps, hope you can join us. Here’s the deal: We are giving away our “Vinyl is Killing the MP3” T-shirt to 3 fortunate winners! The contest theme is “Vinyl is Killing” so get creative! Step 1 – Make sure to follow or Like us at one or more of…
Read More…And The Professors Project.
Here’s a great clip from the recording sessions for And The Professors upcoming album “Postmortem”. This is one very unique band that describes their music as “Orchestral Pop Rock. We were hired to help shape the band’s album art + design and were fortunate to get to hear the album as we worked on it. Keep…
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