It has been a little while since I have talked about either album covers or typography, so here’s a shortlist of some covers that I love that feature exclusively typography. They have all been designed in the 2000s.
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Loving Posters #02
The posters showcased today are colourful and typo-centric. Three of them used hand-made style typography, while the two others utilise fonts. Unfortunately, I do not know which fonts. Sometimes, not knowing the answer is good. It shows that we are not a robot or a machine fed by sole knowledge. It shows that even though […]
Designing an album cover part 2
The last time that I wrote about designing an album cover, I focused on photography. I intended to show how easy it is to design an album cover. Things are going to be a little bit more tricky this time, as I am going to ask you to do something that – perhaps – you […]
Loving covers #01
After sharing my favourite posters of the month in January, I decided to showcase my preferred album covers of the month. I personally give a lot of attention to album artworks and will buy music because of the artwork. This was the case for some of the releases listed below. I will also mention and […]
Loving letters: Gotham Black’s uppercase G
In 2008 I saw that letter for the first time in a music documentary entitled One More Song: Hooligan Disco. Made by French filmmaker Jean-Baptiste de Laubier – also known as an electronic music producer: Para One – the film focuses on the US tour of Surkin, Curses! and Para One himself. Gotham Black is […]
Loving posters #01
One thing that pretty much every designer loves is a good poster. Posters are great because they allow for as many or as little information as we need to display. It may be for a concert, a movie, an ad, or nothing at all. Even though I haven’t had the opportunity to design many posters, […]
Behind the cover: Le Duc
As a graphic designer, one of the things I’ve always wanted to work on was an album cover. Thankfully, I also happen to make music, which allowed me to work on my own album covers. This way, I can create the perfect visual representation of my music with ease. Today I would like to take […]
Behind the logo: Wu-Tang
At the beginning of the early 2000s, I started to give Hip-Hop a lot more attention. I was reading books and magazines about the culture and watching documentaries about it and listening to rap. I would listen to a lot of rap. I was obsessed with it: the beats, the rhymes, the flow. Everything was so […]
Behind the cover: Los Angeles
This is clearly a post about Los Angeles, and it has fascinated me for years. Unlike what you may be thinking, I am talking about the Los Angeles from Flying Lotus’s album cover Los Angeles and not the city of Angels. Welcome to the first Behind the cover post. The first time I’ve listened to […]
Designing an album cover part.1
There are several ways of designing an album cover. I am no expert at designing them, but as a graphic designer and electronic musician, I do have some experience designing a few. In this series of articles, I will show you how you can design an album cover. The first thing that you need to […]