A Real Piece Of Work
Released in early 2025 this album design was based around one of my own illustrations.
Considering the project name, I needed to embrace artwork that wasn’t digitally created, so I illustrated the cover art traditionally.
Having periodic music releases means good opportunity to design graphics, packaging and products on a semi-regular basis.
My musical output, and associated labels might not have been overwhelmingly successful, but they have gifted me the ability to do plenty of creative design work.
Released in early 2025 this album design was based around one of my own illustrations.
Considering the project name, I needed to embrace artwork that wasn’t digitally created, so I illustrated the cover art traditionally.
I really enjoyed working on a purely type driven solution for this album.
Being able to realise a gatefold album with spot UV varnish on the cover and brightly coloured vinyl ended up with lots of people commenting on the quality of the album package.
A double album release plus single. Out of the Loop was a two-part album released separately with singles and then released together as a double CD package (designed to mimic a vinyl gatefold).
Made while living in Copenhagen for a year, this album ended up on double CD with remixes.
The artwork was my digital illustration of the frontage for an apartment I stayed in during my time in Denmark’s capital.
My first album as Stillhead, this one was signed to a different label for 12" release but I requested control over the artwork, so aside from their label logo, I was able to do the art direction.
Prior to the alias Stillhead, I worked for 7-8 years under the production alias DFRNT, I took a look back at everything I had achieved with albums, EPs, remixes, DJing around the world and collected it all with my thoughts into a self-published magazine.
This way if I lost any of the flyers, releases or magazine clippings with reviews, I’d have somewhere they all lived.
My second album as DFRNT, this one was a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign and resulted in a 12" picture disc for the single, as well as a run of CDs for the album.
