Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Sauna Youth - Lists ep

Rich from Sauna Youth sent over another great 7" for review... similar to their first ep, this layout was drawn by Rich and his brother R.M. Phoenix. the covers were printed using a Risograph machine, which is kinda like a screen print / photocopy hybrid that uses instant automated plating for printing by color. i really love this cover art and that understated type hanging out in the corner. the intentional off-register cyan and magenta colors brings nice movement to the image and makes it way more dynamic than it would have been in just black ink. this thing would make for a killer t-shirt graphic...


these covers were printed on a raw / uncoated card stock and then cut down to be folded. the back panel features some of R.M.'s personal art with a beautiful geometric hand drawn line composition. the type on the back panel is also hand set with letraset to match the front....


the cover unfolds to be the lyric sheet. i love that you can see all the relief lines from where they cut the typewriter paper up and photocopied everything together. this thing looks awesome....


A and B labels are a match back to the insert and are identical. i don't know if the type was intentionally imbalanced on the label, but i love it!


Rich mentioned in his letter that there were 9 different covers made by various artists to coincide with a screen printed poster exhibition, i would have loved to check that out! maybe next time....

No comments:

Post a Comment