Off The Sky — Gently Down The Stream

The brief was to update the design of the original artwork. The more I worked on it the more I thought it would be fitting to make it distinctly different as a reissue on a new format. I tried for quite a while to make the new design work on white but it just felt too close to the original. The background colour is inspired by Kentucky Bluegrass that Jason mentioned in his description of the original artwork, the other colours are taken from the original 2005 sleeve and 2010 digital reissue artwork. The same elements are also used so it still feels like the same album — the font (Eurostile Medium), the wavy lines, the tiny orange triangles, the dotty crosses, the tiny bar graphic and I managed to extract the ear of bluegrass from the 2010 artwork. The background colour wraps around to the back where the track listing and credits float on a white background as a homage to the original art. 

The track listing, credits and tiny bar graphic sit on white as a callback to the original artwork

The track titles float down the sleeve and fade from green to blue

Single sided insert with artist and album information

The centre labels are on the bluegrass green for the first disc and white for the second. Instead of labelling each side, I put 1234 on side A, 567 on B etc.

I design most of the re:discovery records releases, take a look at my artwork for the vinyl reissues of A Positive Life — Synaesthetic and Neural Network — Excerpts EPs trilogy.