Over the last three month I was working on the artwork for the new record of Dresden based poostpunk band Goldner Anker. The project includes LP sleeve, CD digipack, posters and shirt designs. I tried to create a fine but still raw and basic atmosphere within the motives. Less metaphors, no symbols, all very plain and open to interpretation. I used portrait photographies of the three band members, cut them to slices and rearranged it into a new face. All analogue with scalpel, ruler and gluesticks. The final reprography was shot by Jens Beyer and Armin Bronco. The font is hand painted and simply scanned. A bit +m let it look more rough. The rest of the artwork is set in super grotesk. No playing around, just plain text. I signed it all with my new bowing out alter ego Bill Wankhead,
The design process included also some trails and errors. Here you see some versions and early steps of the fonts and cut ups. In the end we kept going with the stripped version, but we also were going for a more topographic version of the face mash up.
Because nothing is complete without some hands on merchandise, here you see the poster and the shirts based on one more symbolic artwork. Again all analogue cut up.
