Binding example

Publishing
Design by Kummer & Herrman

Lovely example of creative binding here, a saddle stitch down the spine and green foil block letting on the front. A few processes that I want to explore within my vinyl project - Trying to achieve the texture of a vinyl through print?

Finnish Design

Design by  Gary Rizzolo
Playful album cover design for a Finnish psychedelic garage rock band. Such a simple idea but has a wonderful final effect.

78 Content

I feel like the label has no contextual identity or audience at the moment, I want to focus on bass and rap driven music because these are the main areas that vinyl are excelling in. I want the visual identity to be simple with running themes, including the repeated versions of the 78 logo. As well as the branding and promotional material for the label I wanted to create a vinyl pack / poster design that kicks start the

The two artists that I want to release the first two special edition vinyls are -
Onoe Caponoe -  West London based MC & The fives another London based group both representing different sides of the labels releases. The information below is what I want to put on the poster / vinyl sleeve designs.

The first special edition releases from bass driven music label 78 -
7T8001, 7T8002

7T8001
Vinyl 1 - Onoe Caponoe
Side A - Milkyway 131 - 4.24
Side B - Clockwork Green- 3.16

Vinyl 2 - Onoe Caponoe
Side A - Space Stars - 3.23
Side B - Tick Tock - 2.22

Vinyl 3
Side A / B - Interview with Onoe Caponoe

7T8002
Vinyl 1 - The Fives - West London, 
- What you do - 4.45
- What you do (DKS Remix) - 5.15

Vinyl 2
- Side A - Feels Good - 5.56
- Side B - Tim Berg - Bromance (Fives Remix) - 5.39

Vinyl 3
- Side A / B - Interview with The Fives

Stocks

Some of the stocks that I have collected for the project, really keen on the way the grey and pastels compliment each other. All similar gsms, I want to think about duplexing the paper so will try out sticking it together and seeing colour strips on the side. (sorry about the appalling photos)

Vinyl Shopping

Went on a bit of a hunt to get some vinyls to get a better idea for the feel of the stocks used in relation to gsm and coated / uncoated etc. All were really cheap average was about £1.50 could look into showing people where to get cheap vinyl.

 7" Vinyls to be used for my pack, special release I am thinking about maybe spray painting them to see how different coloured vinyls work with the pack.

 Can put stickers over this section to really represent how the final product would look.

 I really like this duo tone cover, the textured photograph and bold colour scheme drew me to it.

 If it wasnt for the cowboy image the text and image composition could have been really interesting, I like the retro feel could think about referencing my type to this.

 bargain

Popular Noise

Packaging & Promotion
Design by Popular Noise

Never Forever

Information & Wayfinding
Design by - The Luxury of Protest - Printed By K2 Screen
Available for purchase from HERE
Outragous project from concept to print methods, screen printed Fujiflex plastic with matte white ink. A wonderful information based project. Its projects like this that really push the way we see and interpret information. The glossy substrate could also work well for my own project with obvious visual references to the texture and quality of vinyl, I could maybe think about printing un-coated / matte inks onto the paper to recreate the texture further.

“Never Forever Never for Now” is a quantitative visualisation of the transient nature of empire. The visualisation graphs all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to the present day. Each empire occupies a slice of the pie graph with a known start (+) and end (×) date. Each slice is assigned a transparency value of 10% allowing for concurrent empires to be visualised – the more empires that occupy the same period of time in history, the whiter the graph. As history progresses, humankind’s competition for wealth, resources and the relentless drive toward conquest and occupation can be clearly seen in the graph." - Quote from September IndustryFormat—C-type print on

Typeline

I want the type for each era of music in the vinyl pack to be visually relevant to the time. I have done some reading into the developments within typography in the last 50 years, much of which was based around the music at the time so will work well for this project. Although I am only researching 50 years now I may continue this research for my own benefit though my CTS blog.

Research taken from Typography -
'An encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques throughout history'
By Friedrich Friedl, Nicholaus Ott & Bernard Stein

1945 -
- Swiss style, main contributors were Switzerland & USA
- Used lines of capitals, old expressive forms gave way for clear arrangement of illustration and text.
- Pioneers - Zurich & Basel
- Style with no regional charachteristics but international quality
- 'Elementare Typographie'
- Abstract design / photography & concept through out
- Typographic style was a major force in post war years
- Switzerland used prodominently sans serif type
- USA - Combination of serif & sans serif

 1955 - 
- Pictorial typography

- Post second world war
- New forms of typographic expression
- Started in USA
- Introduction of film setting / copying / transfer technology
- Integrated text / picture concepts emerged
- Text was altered, extended two and three dimensionally, cut and made into collage
- Rules ignored - Abtruse arrangement of text

 1960 - 
- Stability - Sans Serif typefaces
- Akindez / Grotesk / Franklin Gothic
- Helvetica / Folio / Univers
- Large amounts of unprinted space
- Grid systems
- Bold faces headlines
- Technical precision

1965 - 
- Psychedelic design and type
- Soon deteriorated into a fashionable accessory
- Typefaces distorted - Hallicinatory in a fashion
- Origins of style - Drugs and altered perceptions they produce
- Linked to pop and rock music
- Main contributors - LA / New York / Chicago / London
- Questioned tired practical approach
- Artists input to type

 1975 - 
- Punk era
- Photocopied type
- Main contributor London
- Reject effective communicative design
- Soon became swallowed up into overall design of the 80's

1980 - 
- Adam Frutiger - Frutiger typeface

1985
- Encyclopedic typography

- Wealth of expression and inventiveness
- Unencumbered by fixed formulas

 1990 - 
- Multi-stylistic typography

- Introduction of the computer
- Stages of design speedily accepted or disregarded
- Copies reproduced without loss of time
- Software & programs rapidly improved
- Playful method of design underwent positive development
- Pictorial and ornamental typography

Some more examples of interesting typography that I found thorough the book, could be interesting to incorporate some of these for my logo development.