IVEY – album art series
I was approached by Mirror Music Group to design a new logo, and the singles plus debut EP album art for Brisbane band, Ivey.
The brief was loose. The band wanted to use imagery from their previous photoshoots in some kind of digital collage series, and it all needed to pop in the sea of Spotify tiles.
I developed the concept, art direction and style across all. I leaned into the lightly 80s-esque sultry synth dance-pop themes on human connection and heartbreak, as inspiration. And kept the artwork saccharinely saturated, yet abstract and disembodied across the digital collage series.
A bit like modern dating.
Above is the debut EP album art, which was created last in the series
After concepts were pitched with mood boards and sketched, all final artwork was created digitally.
I went analogue with acrylic, crayon and watercolour to create textures, pillaged the license-free NASA space photography library, and used a few purchased stock photos of natural materials such as crystals, rocks, metals.
This is a snapshot of the texture exploration and image creation process for the first artwork created for Bodies, which established the style for the series.
The discovery of the free NASA library was super fun (highly recommend following Image of the Day), and I got a bit sidetracked playing with disco inspired galaxy themes in the development of the second single artwork, Talk Talk.
By the third single artwork, Scream, below, I had an established process going on.
