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Covering Album Covers
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Note to self: Place Swans' collected works in Heston's burial tin for the afterlife.
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If you really want to amp up the discomfort level, give the lettering more of a Futurist feel - the creeping sense of fascist aesthetic would probably put the artwork over the top (in a sense).Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 8:35amReturning to this thread, I offer Swans' iconic Filth cover. The teeth x-ray is almost certainly the most recognizable image associated with the band. The typography, tho, mars the impact. What would you do to improve it?
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That does make sense in that the Swans aesthetic is about the visceral effect of the music, much less cerebral. You're supposed to feel something in your gut. Which does lend itself to fascism's glorification of power and violence. (Gira is going in a different direction with its purpose, mind you, tho in those early years he was more ambiguous.) So there is a sensible aesthetic connection.Flex wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 12:31pmIf you really want to amp up the discomfort level, give the lettering more of a Futurist feel - the creeping sense of fascist aesthetic would probably put the artwork over the top (in a sense).Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 8:35amReturning to this thread, I offer Swans' iconic Filth cover. The teeth x-ray is almost certainly the most recognizable image associated with the band. The typography, tho, mars the impact. What would you do to improve it?
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0397/ ... 1431713840
A lot of those posters utilzed the type at odd angles. Is that what you would do, or keep it horizontal?
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Those red bars really ruin what should be a striking-as-fuck photo. I would ditch them, turn the text red, and either leave it where it is or center it above and below the image.
BUT what I'd really like to do is cut the text altogether. The album cover is just black with teeth on it in the center. Way more effective that way.
BUT what I'd really like to do is cut the text altogether. The album cover is just black with teeth on it in the center. Way more effective that way.
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I'd also mask out that line on the left side. I guess that's the apparatus that keeps the lips out of the way? It distracts from the brutal simplicity of the teeth.Kory wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 2:16pmThose red bars really ruin what should be a striking-as-fuck photo. I would ditch them, turn the text red, and either leave it where it is or center it above and below the image.
BUT what I'd really like to do is cut the text altogether. The album cover is just black with teeth on it in the center. Way more effective that way.
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My inclination, too, would be to get rid of the text—leave it for the back sleeve—but Flex's idea of a fascist aesthetic with the text is kind of intriguing.Kory wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 2:16pmThose red bars really ruin what should be a striking-as-fuck photo. I would ditch them, turn the text red, and either leave it where it is or center it above and below the image.
BUT what I'd really like to do is cut the text altogether. The album cover is just black with teeth on it in the center. Way more effective that way.
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So, Kory et al, what say you? I'm iffy on the typography, yet the whole thing works for me, quite early 20th c. futurist. I'd love a mounted and framed poster of it, in fact.
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That mustard yellow is very GEERish.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 4:04pm
So, Kory et al, what say you? I'm iffy on the typography, yet the whole thing works for me, quite early 20th c. futurist. I'd love a mounted and framed poster of it, in fact.
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Tho I don't care much for the album, GEER is far and away my favourite Clash sleeve.
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My ideas are always extremely the best imhoDr. Medulla wrote: ↑28 Aug 2017, 2:21pmMy inclination, too, would be to get rid of the text—leave it for the back sleeve—but Flex's idea of a fascist aesthetic with the text is kind of intriguing.
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Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 4:04pm
So, Kory et al, what say you? I'm iffy on the typography, yet the whole thing works for me, quite early 20th c. futurist. I'd love a mounted and framed poster of it, in fact.
I like it. My only suggestion would be to have the figure invade the text space a bit to make them interact more.
The O in that typeface is kind of funny—I'd assume the type designers were either trying to make sure the O didn't cause confusion with a capital D (though the face looks to be all lowercase. I'd be interested in the uppercase version—the O may be from that), or just trying to be quirky. It makes it more difficult to read, but the poster demands attention, so you wouldn't be skimming it anyway.
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Flex in 2001 wrote:They should do a Star Trek prequel series about the first Enterprise and get Scott Bakula to be the captain.
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What about having the name of the group three times, especially all in the same place? How would you justify that?Kory wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 5:06pmI like it. My only suggestion would be to have the figure invade the text space a bit to make them interact more.
The O in that typeface is kind of funny—I'd assume the type designers were either trying to make sure the O didn't cause confusion with a capital D (though the face looks to be all lowercase. I'd be interested in the uppercase version—the O may be from that), or just trying to be quirky. It makes it more difficult to read, but the poster demands attention, so you wouldn't be skimming it anyway.
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IT WAS SO PERFECT ON PAPERDr. Medulla wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 5:07pmFlex in 2001 wrote:They should do a Star Trek prequel series about the first Enterprise and get Scott Bakula to be the captain.
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