
HACKNEY DIAMONDS
2024
These are album cover redesigns. The first two are for a future 10th Anniversary Edition of The Rolling Stones' 2023 release, Hackney Diamonds. This was a longer project, involving research on the band, other covers or artwork, and an analysis of the album's sounds and themes. We were tasked with choosing an album of our liking and coming up with two entirely different proposals for redesigned front and back covers, using a single typeface. I designed the covers using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with an emphasis on typographical grids for the text, most evidently on the blue cover, where I challenged myself to work with a circular grid.
SOME GIRLS
Recently, I got the chance to revisit album covers, this time having only a week to redesign a front cover. I chose another record by my favorite band, this time, 1978's Some Girls. For this assignment I chose to stick closely to the original cover's concept, by incorporating the band members' faces into a vintage wig ad. Like the original, I based my design on an existing ad, redrawing it and using ink to illustrate it. The rest of the design was created using Photoshop.