Ever Vivid — States of Being

September 2021

Artwork for a double vinyl album in gloss finish gatefold sleeve on Exalt Records.

The first time I listened to this album, before it even had a title, the music gave me images of something broken or smashed. When I found out it was to be called States of Being that idea made even more sense.

 

Front cover
Back cover

I explored imagery around the broken theme and this library image of broken glass gave me the idea to put a person at the centre of it. The fracture lines radiating out from the figure, a suitable metaphor for the music and album concept. Centre labels are dark for the A/B vinyl and light for C/D to reflect the light and shade of life's ups and downs.

Cover with vinyl
Cover
Spine close-up
Back cover detail
Front and back cover gatefold
Gloss finish gatefold sleeve
Inside gatefold
The inner gatefold image is an obscured ghostly figure in a dilapidated hallway
Inner gatefold close-up
Side A label
The single colour labels continue the broken glass theme, sides A/B are dark and C/D are light
Side C label
Side B and D labels
Sides B and D with the track listing
Group shot

I have designed most of the artwork since the label returned in 2018, see more here.

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THE END — various artists
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Exalt Records — record label artwork
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Logo design and branding
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FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps 5
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Merchandise design
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Covert Four — various artists
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Off The Sky — Gently Down The Stream
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Auratecture — logo and branding
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Paul Hierophant — Watching The Decoys
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FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps 4
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Vivid.Care — print design for rebrand
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Neural Network — Excerpts EPs trilogy
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Found Sound 3 — various artists
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Dyadik — music label branding and artwork
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Magnonic Signals — record label artwork
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FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps 3
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Morphology — Twelve
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Rollits LLP – branding and design for print
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Serge Geyzel — Xenophonic
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FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps 2
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A Positive Life — Synaesthetic
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Velum Break — Please Take Care of Me
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FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps
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Plaid – Stem Sell
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Scanner – The Signal of a Signal of a Signal
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The Future Sound of London – A Controlled Vista
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Found Sound 2 – various artists
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Keiss – Urban Utopia EP
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Touched Electronix – record label branding
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Buspin Jieber – Volcanic/Harmonic/Sounds
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Brainwaltzera — Remixed EP
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exm – LS16
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LSS Waste Management — sales brochure
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Karsten Pflum – Revealed EP
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Velum Break — Bench Manoeuvres
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Verdant — various artists
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Covert 3 — various artists
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Ariadne's Labyrinth — Twisted Up & Turned Around
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Payzu – brochure and exhibition stand
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Found Sound – various artists
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Autechre — JNSN CODE GL16 / spl47
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Ron Holmes — All at Sea (poetry book)
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Callcredit — CAMEO brochure
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Nottingham Building Society – Facebook game