I'm really a terrible
blogger, but on the other hand I'm glad I also have dayjobs enough to
pay the bills. It will take some more guts on my side before I dare
take the leap and actually take my work seriously. Blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, here is my latest
work for Pyramido; album cover, inlay and a t-shirt design.
This is the cover for
Pyramido's new album ”Saga”, which will be out this month.
I'm usually given a few
inspirational words or a picture to point out the general direction,
and this time I got the colour green and Hans Arnold's fantastic
cover for ABBA's greatest hits albums.
There also came up
an idea about depicting the band members in animal shapes,and since
they're fond of the swedish phenomenon “fika”, which includes
coffee and pastry, I thought they should gather in the forest and
enjoy just that, around the camp fire.
The surroundings are
scattered with details relating to the band and their collaborators
in different ways, and for the backdrop I drew inspiration from
renaissance art landscapes, from Giorgione, Dürer, Bruegel and their
likes.
The album inlay also
required some illustration and I got the notion to stack the animals,
roaring, on top of each other, just like in the Grimm tale of the
Town Musicians of Bremen. The same picture is also made into a tote bag, shown here.
The T- shirt shows
the same bandimals having a brawl about the last scraps of “fika”.
A nice job, all
together. One can't go wrong with animals and fairy tales.
