Track Covers
Services
Visual Identity
Packaging
Info
Various DJ's from the dnb and techno scene asked me to design covers for their tracks. I spoke a lot with each dj before starting each design concept about what their track represents and what they want the cover to convey. The direction for every cover came directly out of these conversations, the brief was rarely more than a feeling or a few words. Translating that into a visual language was the actual design problem.
Watercolour
Two-sided design for a vinyl release.
Brief The DJ wanted a front and back cover pairing for vinyl. The intent: a track to listen to when relaxing, in good weather, just trying to feel good.
Insight Colour needed to carry the emotional weight before any imagery did, so I picked orange, blue and yellow to evoke summer. I wanted to keep the more illustrative project for the back side of the vinyl cover, so I decided to take a more abstract/hallucinogeic approach for the front cover.
Action Front cover: sun rays radiating outward, with a gradient suggesting sand meeting sea - simple, atmospheric, restrained. Back cover: built out the more illustrative half of the pair, translating a shared idea from our conversation; that the music should feel like it was flying away, floating. This led me to creating a vinyl record transforming into a bird and flying into the sunset.
Running Through Berlin
Brief This was the DJ’s first produced set and they wanted a cover that visualised it. Their only direction: it should feel like an acid trip of someone running through Berlin.
Insight This was also early in my own career as a graphic designer and I was drawing on 2000s-era track cover aesthetics for reference. I wanted the piece to hold dimension without losing a flat, two-dimensional graphic quality, a tension I found in a lot of that era’s design.
Action I built movement into the typography itself, letting the type carry the “running” energy rather than relying only on imagery. The flat but dimensional approach came from layering shape and colour rather than depth or shadow.
(Track has been unpublished by DJ due to style change)
Demons Rule the World
Brief The DJ’s gave me very minimal direction here - just “go with the feel of it.” The track itself is intense, high-energy techno.
Insight With so little steering from the DJ, the track itself became the brief. I decided the cover needed to match the intensity but through a cartoony, exaggerated lens rather than a literal or dark one, closer to demons breaking loose than a horror aesthetic.
Action I experimented in the Adobe AI suite to construct the demons and globe, building up layers of lava and fire until the image read as the world being set alight from within.
(Track has been unpublished by DJ due to style change)
