{"id":3632,"date":"2019-09-22T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2019-09-22T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:48:41","slug":"wave-and-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2019\/09\/wave-and-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave and spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold my latest record cover! Long-time collaborator Logistics has a habit of kindling inspiration in me, usually by bringing his music with some kind of twentieth-century art or design reference point that is totally in my wheelhouse. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px.jpg\" alt=\"Logistics - Waveforms EP cover\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NHS364-Packshot-3000px-570x570.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this EP, Logistics gave me some images of library music sleeves, so I took these reference points and set about creating a unique piece of artwork that (hopefully) feels like it could be part of the same niche. I came up with a scheme to do a spin painting for the artwork. The technique is wildly unpredictable, and (as is the way in the topsy-turvy world of independent music) the constraints didn&#8217;t afford the luxury of creating an entire spin-painting turntable, but I managed to cobble together a setup using my power drill, some scraps of wood, and my communal back-garden on a sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>The trial-and-error began. I discovered that acrylic paint was too thick and ink was too thin, but paint from a spray-can was just about the right consistency to drift with the centrifugal forces, but still stay opaque. A few attempts later I was starting to get results I was happy with.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lOXg6SJZMBM' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A little colour-shifting later, the results pleased the label and Logistics himself, so it was on to the packaging details. The cover design was divided into thirds, so I found a slightly abstract way to divide the centre labels into thirds too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1181\" height=\"1181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label.png\" alt=\"Waveforms EP centre label\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label.png 1181w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-label-570x570.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1181px) 100vw, 1181px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because this is a cover for Hospital&#8217;s most-prolific musician and the reference point for the artwork was library music, I also went to the effort of presenting the inner sleeve as a library of Logistics&#8217; music in itself. I combed through the entire back catalogue, fought it into a sensible (again thirds-based) layout, and after a bit of to-and-fro over what should and shouldn&#8217;t be included where, we have another satisfying detail for the project!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library.png\" alt=\"The Logistics Music Library, 2019\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library.png 2000w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/loggy-library-570x570.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The record is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalrecords.com\/shop\/release\/logistics\/nhs364-waveforms-ep\">Hospital Records<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold my latest record cover! Long-time collaborator Logistics has a habit of kindling inspiration in me, usually by bringing his music with some kind of twentieth-century art or design reference point that is totally in my wheelhouse. For this EP, Logistics gave me some images of library music sleeves, so I took these reference points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,24],"tags":[375,773,772,7,771,695,456,770],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art","category-design-process","category-work","tag-cover-design","tag-library","tag-library-music","tag-logistics","tag-making-of","tag-painting","tag-record-cover","tag-spin-painting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-WA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}