Record Cover Art: Hvass&Hannibal and Others
February 21 2010 — JA
The Creative Review Blog have been doing some spectacular posts on record cover art for some years now. There are really too many to talk up in full, but I do want to spotlight this beautiful rendition of Danish band Efterklang's new album Magic Chairs by arts and design studio Hvass&Hannibal. To me it looks like some kind of cold, bright, slightly muted carnival. Hvass&Hannibal dyed all the ribbons by hand and shot the artwork in Copenhagen's Thorvaldsen’s Museum with photographer Brian Buchard. There is a great behind the scenes post about the process on their blog - be sure to check other their other album covers here and here.
A few other samples are below. You can browse through some of Creative Review's archives here.
CD pack for Svensk Indie 1988-2006, released by by Nons Records, designed by Edvard Scott.
Pepe Deluxé's Spare Time Machine, released by Catskills, designed by Jari Salo and Vilunki Viljakainen. It almost has a kind of seventies steampunk feel.
Jazzanova's Of All The Things, designed by Hort. My typography fetish means I couldn't go past this one.
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