FSOLdigital presents Mind Maps
Design and artwork for a limited edition eight panel digipak CD mix album featuring an hour long seamless journey of remixes by various aliases of The Future Sound of London.
Mind Maps was first heard as a promotional mix for the release of A Controlled Vista and was another dream project for one of my favourite artists on one of my favourite labels. I began by researching imagery of various landscapes and thought about how the topography of the natural world could represent the brain: rivers become veins, deltas the nervous system and mountain ranges become tissue. I found some amazing and inspirational satellite imagery by the United States Geological Survey that I overlaid and reworked to form a seamless background over all eight panels. The vastness of the imagery also fit into the FSOL narrative established with their previous artwork and helped to convey the moods and emotions of the music.
Initially I only set out to design the album title in the custom typography (inspired by the twisty folds of a brain) but then hit on the idea of the stylised "M"s resembling a brain shape. It shows the left brain/right brain (analytical/creative) and could also be sound waves or brain waves.
Pleased with how well the brain inspired typography had turned out and seeing as there was very little text to work with (not even a track listing), I constructed the names of the various remix aliases (FSOL, Humanoid, Yage and Synthi A) in the same style. This added more interest to the artwork and also gave a glimpse into the music.
The album was sold exclusively by Touched Music and FSOLdigital with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support. See my artwork for Mind Maps 2, Mind Maps 3 and Mind Maps 4.
