Freshkills - Raise Up The Sheets Lp..

I recently put together some artwork for this band Freshkills from NYC, and these CDs already showed up on Friday! this is their third Lp, and they wanted to keep with a similar theme they established on their previous records with a man / woman vibe. Here are some shots of what I came up with for them...

Be sure to check these guys out, they are a great hard-working band! to see more of my design work i've done for bands, CLICK HERE...

Pulling Teeth - Funerary

Another great submission that came in recently is the new Pulling Teeth Lp titled "Funerary". this is most likely their final release, so I'm really glad I was able to get it up on here since they have done an excellent job at creating a consistent band aesthetic throughout the years.

Much like their other releases, the cover art (by Jeff Beckman) taps into the world of the surreal with a heavy mix of dark imagery and traditional tattoo styling. I really like the way he played with symmetry without creating a mirror image, it's like my eyes keep getting pulled into all the details in search of the subtle differences. There is a lot of imagination happening in this piece...


The back cover is a wrap-around continuation of the front panel to act as a background for the song titles. Overall this is some really nice typography, although there are a few areas where the spacing becomes an issue with the scroll work. it starts to feel like its sitting a little too tight in some areas...


This is the cd version of this release on Firestarter records, and these cds these were made using a standard 6 panel digipack layout. The layout was completed by their singer Mike Rily with the help of Linas Garsys. This next shot is of the cd with the front cover open and the inside panel closed. There are a lot of lyrics printed here, and they handled the typography well. It may be very small, but they're not hard to read...

The next shot shows both panels opened. There is a rad illustration by John Patrick on the inside panel when it's opened. Nice balance of color and lots of fine detail, I bet this thing looks sick on the Lp version....m


The cd face is where we see that classic Pushead style logo they have been using over the years. The background here is a tie-back to the cover art...

Nice job to all the guilty parties, this is a solid release.

Divided Heaven...

i've been making a lot of art this year for the Los Angeles solo project of Jeffrey Berman known as based Divided Heaven, first up is the debut release that came out on Paper And Plastick Records a few months ago. this is a full color offset printed digipack sleeve with 6 printed panels, have a look...

back cover...

this shot is with the front panel open, the inside panel closed....

both panels open...

and the disc face, which the printer did not bother trying to color match to the rest of the art....

i also recently made two t-shirt designs for Divided Heaven to support the aesthetic of the cd art....

and last but not least, a sticker....

to see more of my art for bands, click here.....

awesome hand made cd's by Kid Sister Records....

i've always kinda been on the fence about cd's in regards to this blog.... but Harrison over at Kid Sister Records sent some copies of these awesome hand made releases to check out, and they are way to good not to blog about.

first up is the Antilles s/t ep. this is the 2nd press edition, 100 copies. the covers are screen printed front and back with hints of spray paint on a nice 100lb card stock. these things are straight up screened right over the disk! it blows my mind that this even worked!

the packaging for this Grown Ups cd is pretty noteworthy as well.... look at the amount of time they put into assembling these. made with 100% recycled paper, these covers were screen printed, cut, folded, and then fashioned with kite string so that the cd remains contained inside the jacket.

the disk face was spray painted and stamped as well....

a folded 8.5" x 11" sheet of yellow paper gets photocopied and folded for a a lyric sheet that is near impossible to read, yet looks cool.

if you'd like to hear these releases (or any of the other Kid Sister releases), you can check them out for free here...