i came across another really cool release from Grave Mistake recently, check out this The Shirks Ep.... really nice "fast and loose" illustration style going on in this cover image. i mean, it is clearly rendered well, and then it has just the right amount of slop in all the right places so as not to be mistaken as a meticulous piece. the only thing i don't like about it is the way it crops out the left side of the art ever so slightly.... ack!
these are professionally offset printed and glued 7" jackets on a coated cover stock. the back cover is very sparse with lots of negative space. the typography was arranged with enough care and design sensibility that it does read as a composition, which is a good thing since that's all there is to look at. song titles were hand set with Letraset, the fine print was banged out on a good old fashioned typewriter. well played, sir.....
the A and B labels are straight outta the Delta! alex, please make this the Grave Mistake standard issue label...
nice job guys!
thanks paul! as for the cover - the art isn't actually cropped, the artist went right up to the left edge of the paper when they did the illustration.
ReplyDeleteyeah i kind of figured that was what happened... it has certainly happened to me enough times! i just wish they had finished drawing it on a seperate piece of paper and then finished it digitally....
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