Client: Ceiling Spirits/E8 Productions
Date: Created 2023 / Release April 2024
Brief: Art Direction and graphic design for Ceiling Spirits' new album, 'The Bloodwren'.
Having collaborated on an advertising campaign and visualiser for a standalone 2022 release, Ceiling Spirits approached me this time to head up all visual elements for the highly conceptual new album, 'The Bloodwren'. Entirely instrumental, the record is built around the narrative thread of an oppressive force, represented the Bloodwren character, bearing down on a haunted pale man.
Explored further in my videos for 'The Bloodwren Pt II' and 'Falter', this narrative provided a jumping off point for an album design that embraces this darkness; reds and blacks are carried through every visual associated with the album. The front and back cover are photographs of dark reflections, deliberately obscured by night and out of focus. The additional insert is then entirely hand-illustrated, one side depicting a crucial moment from the narrative where the man descends and the Bloodwren ascends, while the other side incorporates my developmental sketches, concepts, lines from the narrative inspiration and of course the credits.
ALBUM COVER
To be printed on a cardstock that dulls down this harsh white to a light beige.
INSERT
