Album Cover and Zoetrope
Final Designs
Process Work
For this project, I chose to redesign Sleep Token’s album ‘Take Me Back To Eden’, an album that focuses on the darker topics associated with toxic relationships, and the confusing and painful experiences that come with that, all while using beautiful imagery and sound in their songs to convey this. Because of this, I chose to design something that shows elements from different lyrics that would usually be considered “gross” in a beautiful and complex way. I initially designed my physical sketches based on separate lyrics from different songs in the album and included the band’s logo. I later merged elements from all three sketches into one complex, intricate, and artistic album, the materiality in my designs inspired by the original artwork for each song in the album. While the artwork within the album I’ve design is complex, I chose simple, sans-serif typefaces for my text (Futura Medium and Bai Jamjuree Light) to keep the information legible without it getting lost in the dark and complex artwork.
Zoetrope and Continued Process Work
I began to incorporate color into my album cover design while developing my zoetrope animation. I chose to keep a darker palette for my album cover but chose a brighter blue tone for my record and labels to provide a moment of “beauty” within all the gross imagery and dark appearance of the album itself. My zoetrope is consistent with the rest of the album by its inclusion of the moth that appears on both the front and back of the album cover, and the winding snake pattern that appears there as well, along with the album label I designed.
