The brief for this project required a full record sleeve redesign for a popular or favourite album.

Weathervanes is an indie rock/folk album by the Freelance Whales, and is an album that largely feels like a big, old house. It touches on themes of life and death, and the journey in between (or more literally, the journey from the first song to the last on the album); band frontman Judah Dadone has stated that Weathervanes is from the perspective of a boy in love with a ghost.

In keeping with this theme, the cover I have designed is made to look like an old, weathered photograph, with subject matter focussing on an old, rundown house. This is a photo composite of my own photography and licensed stock images. I have put the house in this empty, open field to give the composition a sense of unreality- peaceful and somewhat ethereal. The ghost in the window is an Easter egg reference to the theme of the album. Typefaces chosen are a textured, serif typeface paired with a loose, handwritten script, to both add to the worn and old feel of the photograph and to imitate the sense of writing on the back of a photograph.

Tools:

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

Client:

Freelance Whales, Mom+Pop Music (RMIT University)