Album Packaging Redesign:

Elliott Smith "Either/Or"

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The Cover

To start, I created a new font by hand then scanned it in and incorporated it into the artist name and album title.

For the background image, I used a mix of distressed looking Photoshop brushes.

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The Inlay

For the inlay (or back cover), I made another font by hand as it provides more of a crafted feel to the artwork than a computer font could.

I created the moon in the upper left and kept its colors consistent with the rest of the packaging. I also resized the text from the front cover and rotated it for the spine of the inlay.

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The Disc Label

Here I created characters that matched the somber tone of the album and then arranged them across the disc label.

I again kept the typography consistent with the rest of the packaging.

To see the full layout click here.