Montague Projects at Pulse L.A.

Sorry for the blog silence, this last week was a mad rush to finish multiple projects and get myself to L.A., which is where I am now. I'm at the Pulse L.A. art fair with Black & White Gallery. I'm showing new books and posters from the Secondary Occupants project, a few of them are in this post, you can see the rest on Flickr. I'll be back to Daily Book Graphics posts next week.

My little corner of Pulse

I finally got to design a (full length) album cover

Mark Norris from The Backpeddlers just dropped off several copies of their new vinyl release. I designed the cover, it is pretty satisfying to see the final product. The only other record cover I did was a 12" for Odiorne back in 2009, and that was limited to one color on the cover.

Attic 8-Tracks

Today we started going through the attic with the idea that we needed to get rid of a bunch of stuff via garage sale or donation. One of the things I plan on dumping is a box of 8-track tapes I acquired a few years ago (to go with my avocado green portable 8-track player). I probably don't need to go into all the reasons why the 8-track is the worst format of all time but is, or was. They were also a huge step down from the album cover in terms of graphic design. In most cases the original front cover art was shoehorned onto the label and the track listing was added in a different format. All that being said, they make more interesting relics than cassettes.

This is the most amazing one, it's Black Sabbath with stock graphics