Jump Rope Gazers
“How do you come up with song titles?”, I asked. “Well, I just look at all the lyrics and pick out a line.”
Pithy diary-like confessionals rendered in boisterous indie rock has always been a strong suit of The Beths’ lead songwriter, Elizabeth Stokes. When they asked me to design the vinyl packaging for their second album, I knew I wanted to present the intimacy of her lyrics in a way that was distinctively The Beths’.
Cover Artwork
Philippa Emery
Vinyl Packaging, Retouching & Production Management
Kyle Ranudo
Handwriting & Illustrations
Elizabeth Stokes
Design Solution
Handwriting as typography to convey intimacy and the indie sensibilities that The Beths have built their music around.
Iconography that paired each song with a hand-drawn illustration. Each side of the vinyl disc had five icons corresponding to the songs that appeared on that side.
Inner sleeve front of the vinyl packaging
Lyric sheet / inner sleeve back
Design
Creative/Design Direction
Typography & Layout
Production Management
Tail of the Taniwha
Unravelling Ambiguity
(Case study coming soon)
Sound
Sound Design
Production
Scriptwriting