Album design - Foster McGinty: Chateau Fiasco

Album design and illustration for Foster McGinty's new album Chateau Fiasco.

Having designed his first album Peach Red a couple years back. I wanted to continue the evolution of that style on this one, incorporating a similar bizarre and surreal flavor with the same illustrative approach.

The title provided a nice foundation of word play to begin drawing inspiration from. Bringing down the house via a good ol' seafaring cephalopod was where things ultimately ended up. The music was a nice evolution from the first album as well. I definitely recommend checking it out and I hope you dig the cover too.

Dots Not Feathers Album design

Just finally got my hands on a copy of the Dots Not Feathers: A Thousand Novels album. These guys were great to work with and it was a real pleasure immersing my noggin in their sound for several days as I worked out concepts for the design.

As I was sketching out ideas during the concepting process I thought it would be really cool to connect the “dots” language visually with braille. Getting at the idea that you really do connect with and feel their music. Unfortunately the turnaround was superfast on this and we had very little time for printing, so embossing wasn't an option this go around, but it is on the radar for the next print run. So stay tuned!

Check these super talented humans out here >> Dots Not Feathers









materials used: royalty free clip art, textures, and adobe photoshop.



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Some New Music Packaging...

Aside from illustrating I've managed to sneak a few album design projects into the work flow too. The band links are below each one if you would like to check out the music. RTD makes a few guest appearances in the "Can't Help But Shine" music video for Foster as well, see if you can spot him. Enjoy!



Foster McGinty myspace



MEM myspace



Jon Ladeau Trio