Here are another two recent record covers I’m pretty proud of, both following a paper theme:
![NHS291-Packshot-2400px](http://www.trickartt.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/NHS291-Packshot-2400px.jpg)
The Hospital Mixtape series has been a bit of a puzzle since it started a couple of years back because despite it being called ‘mixtape’, there’s a certain discomfort with cassettes behind The Purple Gates. That means it’s down to me to find a way to think alternatively about tapes.
This year the mixtape was put together by S.P.Y, so I took the raw and minimal production finishes from his last album Back To Basics, and set about mixing them up. I got the knives out and ended up crafting a 1:1 scale cassette tape out of reverse cereal box and ribbon. I even made a cardboard case for it too, for the ongoing messy desk imagery used in the series.
![ddesk](http://www.trickartt.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ddesk.jpg)
A bit of careful photography and a lot of retouching later, it all came together.
Hugh Hardie is a new Hospital signing. For his debut EP, titled ‘City Soul’, I drew a very rudimentary skyline and chopped it up into something a lot more abstract. I had recently bought myself a slightly mad paper circle cutter, and this proved the perfect job to take it for a spin.
![NHS292EP-Packshot-2400px](http://www.trickartt.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/NHS292EP-Packshot-2400px.jpg)
The textures came courtesy of logarithmic graph paper from my grandpa, excess ink from Etherwood’s Blue Leaves album project, and a copy of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon (which I thought was appropriately city), ran through my increasingly temperamental photocopier.
The whole cover then got a bit of explosion treatment on the back cover.
![hardie-back](http://www.trickartt.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hardie-back.jpg)
It’s all made of paper!