CD cover: Bee

The R&B artist Bee sent me a great photo to use; I toned it to highlight his bright amber eyes, added the title and created a quick little bee icon. Simple and done.

CD cover: Noris

The alt-rock band Noris wanted a Lynchian cover with an abandoned motel. Their guitarist found this fantastic photo (which I altered and colorized quite a bit for extra creepiness).

CD cover: Margot

Margot, an Italian rock band, asked for a logo and album cover. They wanted me to emulate the logo for the band Rooney and do a "futuristic, weird" cover for their album Sesto Senso ("sixth sense"). From talking to them it sounded like they wanted a prog-rock sort of cover, something Storm Thorgerson would put together. They dug this image.

CD cover: Andy

A musician named Andy requested something very specific for the cover of his album "Old Food, Old Drinks, and Andy": three vending machines side-by-side with "Cold Food", "Cold Drinks", and "Candy" on them, the "C"s having fallen off long ago to create the title. Oh, and the "Andy" machine had to be filled with copies of the cover that I would be designing. Yikes!

I found some pictures of vending machines and a rough wood backdrop...



...and used Photoshop to assemble them all together, angle the machines to be a group, add shadows, colorize things, clean the rust off of the old machines, and add the labels. Then I saved an image of the whole scene, made a bunch of copies of it, and stuck it in the "Andy" machine. The end result looks pretty cool.

CD cover: S-R.O.C.

This one was a collaboration. The client had a very specific request for a cartoon drawing of himself as a Boondocks character. Through a bit of luck, I found Jen Seng, a friend of my housemates, who happened to be an artist on The Boondocks. She drew his character exactly as described and I colorized him & placed him in this cave environment (again, as requested). Please note the 'claw marks' on the wall in the background.

CD cover: SK

SK asked for a new, fresh look at a hiphop cover, and liked this combination of rough grungy background and halftoned image.

CD cover: Dirty Sanchez

I found this crazy dude's picture for the cover of this British electronica group's debut single. Besides the title, all I added was the lettering on his headband.