Pete Fletcher at
First Love Studios really saved our collective hides recently with some very generous studio time to complete the
Kogumaza LP. Nice to return the favour and be asked to put together this sleeve for the first release on Pete's label
Denizen Recordings by Nottingham's own
Hhymn.
They supplied the wonderful
Ian Chatburn underwater photos and some design direction. Maybe my hungover brain was operating on half power but it was a real struggle to find space and colours to make text work well over such detailed and high-contrast images without ruining the images or making the text illegible. I thought about resorting to boxes or worse still, shrinking the pictures and putting the text underneath. Some Monster Munch and a lie-down later and I went mental with the crop tool and cut the images to quite extreme levels in an attempt to place the divers contained within them on the periphery of the image, making it somehow a little spooky and taking the emphasis away from the human involvement in the images (and isn't that always the best music too: made by humans but with as little trace of their grubby paws as possible, like something in nature just
laid it right?).
Some blue and red tints later and I'm very happy with the results. I think
Peter Saville was on my mind or at least a low-rent version of him.
Out soon. In the meantime watch Hhymn's video here:
http://vimeo.com/21108423 and marvel at the lovely blue Fender Jaguar contained within...
Here's some more images of the sleeve, click them to be magically transported to a world where they're bigger.
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