Lemuria - Ozzy

2 colour screen print of a turtle, look sveet! When looking for this online it had the option of an Arigato Pak, which was sold out. I didnt know what it was so i had a google.

Its like a little box! i like! gonna redraw this and use it myself i think. Give s the potential for a large screen print across the flap and the "cover" as one image. hmm..

Beatles Covers

All 12 of the beatles LP covers for P.S. I Love You research. Not really relevant to my personal taste as they are all printed expensively and on a massive scale.

Mountain Goats

Glaciers EP

On their label's website, a description follows...

"Glaciers is/was a band from all over County Durham/The World that may or may not have broken up. This is their posthumous demo. It has 5 songs of chaotic screamo hardcore, not unlike Heroin or Portraits of Past. They played more shows after this "posthumous" demo came out. They may or may not have broken up. I don't know. Limited to 100 copies Vinyl style CD-R in hand stenciled sleeves. Artwork by Joseph Towns."

A review of the record includes the following quote of absolute genius:

"One singer is all deep and meaningfulmo, and then they have this squawking bird or something."

Glaciers has one singer.

I love the splattered 2 colour stencil!

Paper Bags and Office Supplies

Hardcore band, Unbroken, for this 7" record, used a variety of positive strips from a 35mm film of photos of them playing a gig. Each edition had a different series of positives (the same appears on the front and back of the record). Also, a non-fiction science book on insects has been dissected and the images are glued to the covers, which adds to the limited edition appeal of the record.

Lords and Cotiseum opted for a minimal approach to this split 7". The sheet is half an A4 sheet cut diagonally and corner to corner. This was then folded back on itself along the hypotenuse of the triangle. This creates an interesting visual when folded to fit inside a plastic sleeve.

A very simple stamp on white sleeve with brown inner sleeve is used for this compilation CD from Blood Link records. It is good for mass production, but is not very visually appealing.

Collage looks really good but makes mass production near impossible if the release is supposed to be in series.

The use of "spot colour" in collage form is interesting. Especially when the colour appears on the plastic sleeve rather than the CD case itself. The paper sleeve is photocopied and then hand coloured and the plastic sleeve design is photocoiped on yellow paper.

Screen printed on A4 pulpboard, which is then folded and stapled to house a 7" in a paper sleeve.

Filthy Little Angels Records

This is taken from the fla website. check the strangeways font haha.

Very simple monoprint image on brown CD case. Photograph doesnt transfer to mono very easily, looks a bit bitty for my liking.

Again, nice and simple. Centralised text for track listing with small print and fla logo.

I really love this artwork. Its a really nice illustration that i think is a bit too twee when compared to the music. The stock is much better than that the above example but darker, could be contrast issues with the ink.

Very illustrative for the back of a CD. Tracks are in small print above the label logo.

Ahh, a full Jewel case CMYK from the label.

Apparently this was an earlier release than the simple monoprinted card cases above. A lot more money was splashed out on duplication and printing. That pink says it all really.

The label decided to change to the cheaper printing methods after a while. Loki Machine, however, are aiming cheap as chips from the start.