Gonga Concrescence album artwork

This is the back cover for the Bristol heavy rock band 'Gonga' Concrescence album artwork. 

After seeing the Gnod 'Dropout' artwork I produced the band wanted a similar collage style utilising some of their drawings.

The front was a canvas painting with no text so the album came with a sticker attached to the skrinkwrapp hence why they wanted their name and album title on the backcover (picture to come).



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Hi-Fiction Science - CD Sleeve

CD artwork for Bristol band Hi-Fiction Science.  The band wanted to use icon images from the Bristol skyline and we designed it to look like a dystopian science journal with a hint of 1960's graphical elements, like Ghost box mets 60's industry graphic design.  Not sure the music itself was captured in this sleeve design, but both the band and the artwork was a process to find their styles.



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In Search of Hawkwind - CD (Adapted from the 7" Artwork)

The CD release of my 'Sonic Attack' series artwork.


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Sonic Attack - x3 7" (Hawkwind Covers)

Commissioned by the record label Trensmat records to produce 3 versions of the same artwork for their 'Sonic Attack' Hawkwind 7" series sleeves.

The best approach was treat the artwork as my own cover version & homage of the work of Barney Bubbles & those early Hawkwind sleeves.

The 3 records & the bands they featured can be viewed here:

(trensmat.com/tr013)
(trensmat.com/tr014)
(trensmat.com/tr015)


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Collisions 01 - The Heads / White Hills - Artwork

Still one of my favourite sleeves and a great record. After buying the design book Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, and with a subtle nod to Barney Bubbles era Hawkwind, the Rocket Recordings 'Collisions 01' record was born.


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Gnod Dropout with White Hills II - Artwork

Another real standout sleeve for me.  This time the whole thing came about in collaboration with Rocket band 'GNOD' band member Chris Halsam.

The whole sleeve is part my work, and part Chris's.  I adapted some sketches and painstaking built the whole sleeve up as a black & white image, then laid a pattern over the top.

The first press was just black on white but the 'colour' part was finished with a lovely vspot varnish.  the 2nd was Yellow, the 3rd was dayglo pink and probably my favourite espeaclly with the pink vinyl.



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The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere

One of my most celebrated covers, again more hand 'Heads' cover title font by Mr Price, the rest though was my pure indulgence into 1960's psychedelic artwork. Amongst other things utilising my oil projections photographs in places this was laced with my total homage to that period.

One of my initial designs for 'Everybody Knows', these images where later used as slides for the Heads lightshow


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The Heads - At Last

The Heads At Last, is a colaboration with Simon Price from the band.  This was a very strange sleeve on first viewing and the vinyl in particular.  The first time I laid eyes on it it was dark and under house light I was disappointed to see the women in the centre appeared as a negative state, I questioned that I had got the wrong tones around the wrong way.

Then in daylight, I realised I had not as the women in the centre appeared in positive, it was just a simple trick of the eye with what can only be described as I used 2 of the most clashing colours to the eye.  A great way to make a flat sleeve vibrate an other 60's trick of optical art.

The LP on Rocket Recordings, came as a rare limited Blue & white and red & white sleeve that were given to the band only, the rest were as standard Red & blue.

Expect some posters of these in the future, but with a twist.

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White Hills - LP Vinyl Artwork

This is the White Hills first album on Thrill Jockey and this the vinyl version of the album previously discussed. Its a fantastic foil sleeve, this time with embossed finish.

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The Heads - Sessions 02

 

This was a labour of love, The entire record, which included 10 inserts and a bonus 7" (in the limited edition version) was collaged and created in 2001. 

The final wrap around sleeve was printed in sliver in black, some very rare copies exists with the inside just black and white. The promos came with a colour inside as above, but these were very are aswell.


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Serpentina Satellite - Album Artwork

Beautiful blue foiling sleeve for South America 'space rock' band on Rocket Recordings, the delightful Serpentina Satellite.  This challenged the printer to push there skills to foil the intricate details of some of the geometry.  Another 'Rocket' inhouse job with Chris Reeder layout skills.



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The Heads - Sessions 01 7"

The Heads Sessions 01, my first ever record sleeve back in 1999. Some subtle references to Hawkwind (Barney Bubbles) hidden throughout, and heavy on the 60's influence. 


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Fuzz Against Junk - Netti Netti CD Artwork

Invada records Fuzz Against Junk's 'Netti Netti' album cover, printed on high gloss paper, I am really found of this sleeve, maybe sums up the album itself?  Some nice hand drawn type by Maria Charles on the inside - with words by Fat Paul.


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