art direction ; graphic design
This one is fairly straightforward. And fast.
The task was simple enough. “We need three record covers for digital. You know what I like. Go dark.” And that… was the phone call. My buddy needed them in by the morning. It was 6pm.
My fascination with old textbooks, flight logs, military typography, and so on, coupled with often times horrifically accurate medical illustrations seemed to fit the societal demise barked out across these three (re)releases. Maybe it’s all that precision in both disciplines that makes sense as a pairing?
It hurt my soul to use stock illustrations for the covers but as time wasn’t something I had — at all — I did what we all must in desperate times.
Overall I think the trio has a vibe about them, like some hellish propaganda issued as cautionary flyers.