{"id":1539,"date":"2011-05-04T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2011-05-11T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:50:27","slug":"yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2011\/05\/yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although it’s the obvious kind of content for me to be writing about, I’m trying to avoid making my blog into nothing but a series of case-studies into the latest album I have artworked. Having said that, here I am talking about my latest work to hit the music industry- London Elektricity’s ‘Yikes!’. It’s a good’un!<\/p>\n

This is the second Hospital album cover in a row to be spawned from my Something Creative Every Day<\/a> project. The other is Nu:Tone’s Words and Pictures<\/a>, but they both came to be in different ways. Words and Pictures came from my own initiative, but Yikes was driven by the artist himself – Tony Colman, better known as London Elektricity.<\/p>\n

I was very flattered to learn that Tony has become a fan of SCED<\/em> – he even put a little note about it<\/a> on his blog. It kind of took me by surprise as while I work very closely with everybody at Hospital, I always saw my personal projects as, well, personal to the extent that I imagined nobody I worked with particularly followed them.<\/p>\n

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Since the album was put on the release schedule, we had been through a couple of my daily creativities as potential album covers. The above drawing of Junk Orbit was one of those possibilities, as at one time the album’s working title was ‘Round the World in a Day’ and the spacejunk appealed to the sci-fi fan in Tony. It was also considered for the cover of Logistics’ Spacejams<\/a>, but we held it back as Tony wanted it for his own.<\/p>\n

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Time moved on, more daily creativities fell out of my brain the album’s title changed to what it is now. Along this journey, the Eyeway (above) became the preference for the artwork, so I packed up my ghetto lighting setup, made my way to Forest Hill and shot some photos of the CEO (as putting a photo of my other half on the cover wouldn’t have made much sense!). After a bit of indecision over what to go along the glasses, it was decided as he liked the original with the cars, I’d do another line of traffic, which each vehicle representing a track on the album. I was given a working tracklisting and got to work with my own interpretations of the track names in vehicle form.<\/p>\n