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︎Client – Audio Obscura
︎Role – Art direction / graphic design / illustration

Album artwork for electronic musician Neil Stringfellow aka Audio Obscura on the Newcastle-based label TQN-aut.

This one evolved pretty much organically from thinking about the album title, nostalgically reminiscing about the word ‘electronic’. So a 70/80s vibe, lots of test equipment like oscilloscopes, old TVs, soldering irons and mysterious black boxes with loads of dials and crude displays.

So I put together some unused geometric illustrative experiments I did from my archive with a photograph of an old televison I found on Unsplash, courtesey of Deigo Gonzalez.

I also have to acknowledge the influences of both the video sculptues of Korean electronic artist Nam June Paik, and the Russian constructivist Naum Gabo, both of which I humbly bow to in deep respect.

︎TQN-aut

︎Audio Obscura soundcloud

︎Diego González

︎︎︎CD card envelope design

︎︎︎CD print

︎Client – Audio Obscura
︎Role – Art direction / graphic design / photography

Album artwork for a CD release for electronic musician Audio Obscura. The follow up to a concept album, which I also designed, released in 2020 about the perilous state of the planet in the age of man.

Staying consistant with the first cover, the format is pretty much the same, but with some new photography.

The front cover was taken in a local Walthamstow recycling tip. It has some nice details and the queue of fridges and washing machines makes for a good composition. The inside photo was taken on a cycle ride in the Hackney marshes, I just happened on a decaying leaf which is a beautiful object in itself and fits the whole premise of the album.