Plaid – Stem Sell
Design and artwork for a compilation of remixes by Plaid on vinyl picture disc and 28 track double CD for Touched Music.
I starting off by thinking about how a remix could be interpreted as rearranging a track's genetic code and explored giving each remix it's own DNA barcode. This idea suited the remix album concept and gave me good scope to create something visually interesting.
In a very unscientific way I created 28 DNA barcodes (shown in the banner above), making the height of each relative to track length. I gave the image some depth and fuzziness, similar to a photo being developed. This ended up as the background on the CD case – another version, featuring just the barcodes of the vinyl tracks, appears on the picture disc. Wanting to create something slightly unique for the vinyl, I redrew the Plaid logo in the DNA style for the A side. The CD album comes in a DVD size matt finish digipak case with spot gloss DNA barcodes on the front and back. For the digital format I created 28 individual covers featuring each track's DNA barcode.
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The picture disc and CD formats sold out almost instantly but digital is still available (with individual track art). This release has raised over £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
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