This project was to create an album cover for a band of our choice. I chose the album Strange Trails by Lord Huron. In my research, I found that he likes to incorporate both truth and fiction in his songs to keep his anonymity and personal life quiet.
Lord Huron’s album features the line, “I have seen what the darkness does, so goodbye to who I was.” I chose to use a personal experience from my own childhood, communicating the idea on how a simple occurrence in our lives can invert the way we see the world.
I chose a negative color pallet for my image to enhance my concept, keeping it both visceral and reflective to viewers. Using both Modernist and Post-Modernist principles, I incorporated the use of white space, asymmetry and sans-serif type while also using a center collaged image for the front.
For construction, I printed the background of my album design separately from the foreground, that was transferred onto a transparent sheet. I folded the opaque print into the sleeve, housing the vinyl record, and constructed the transparent front and back images as an outer covering for the album.
I am so proud of this piece and was extremely grateful to have it accepted into the Utah Design Arts Graphic Design Show in 2019.
