Some album covers

A combination of too much time on my hands while poorly over the weekend and having a few too many naked copied CDs in my possession resulted in these album covers.  I quite like the simple, clean design, which was just the right combination of undemanding and yet concentrated work for my groggy state.  I printed out a font that caught my eye – Windsor Light Condensed, from ufonts.com, related to the typeface Woody Allen typically uses for his title and credit sequences - and traced them on to some light card we had at home.  If I were to do it again, I’d choose a heavier, more durable card, but this is all that was in the house. 

I then traced a CD-sleeve shape around the words and cut this out with a knife.

A bit of glue along the joins and an hour pressed in a heavy book resulted in a good, flat finish.

I quite like the effect as it fits each of the albums for different reasons.  Spooked is an acoustic album, mature and pared-back in sound and a clean design suits it.  Night Falls is a younger album but with a ramshackle, hand-made feel to it; care and love went into its making.  That goes for Hithcock too.  The albums are to be given to others, but The Complete Holmes is for me, and is just a data disc of the Sherlock Holmes BBC Radio productions, which is truly the nerd’s choice of Holmes productions.  Why only make pretty things for your friends?