Album Design Archives - Another Kind Studio

Our studio was tasked with creating the comprehensive album artwork and vinyl packaging design for surfer-songwriter Johann Hedemann’s release, Flora. Inspired by the lush, vibrant landscape of Hawaii, the design is a deep visual dive into his island heritage. The album’s striking album cover is a rich tapestry of native flowers, all featured in his previous single campaigns, creating a powerful sense of unity for this release. We extended this visual narrative to the vinyl discs themselves, which are splattered with white and blue to evoke the breathtaking colours of the Hawaiian sea.

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Album Design
Digital Design
Packaging Design

Floral CD album cover design and disc design for "Johann Hedemann – Flora"

CD album booklet design for "Johann Hedemann – Flora"

Floral gate fold vinyl album cover design and splatter vinyl for "Johann Hedemann – Flora"

Floral vinyl album cover design and ocean splatter vinyl record design

Michael Gray approached Another Kind Studio to create the artwork for his latest studio album called Optimism. We created an ethereal and planetary illustration and paired it with retro inspired display typography to compliment the album’s Disco music genre. You can grab the double vinyl at all good record shops now.

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Album Design
Packaging Design

Vinyl label record graphic design for Michael Gray Optimism

Vinyl album cover design for Michael Gray - Optimism

We worked with Z Records founder Dave Lee to create an surrealist album cover illustration for AC Soul Symphony’s Metamorphosis. This album is uniquely centered around a 20-piece live orchestra, which we visualizsed in the album design by illustrating the string instruments in abstracted forms. This approach created a final composition reminiscent of oil paintings from the early surrealist movement. We then came up with two harmonious colour variations for the two-part double vinyl LP, CD, and digital cover art.

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Album Design
Illustrations
Print Design

We were asked by the Z Records team to design the artwork for volume three in Colin Curtis’ Jazz Dance Fusion album series. For the latest instalment, the album would span across a whole range of formats with the jewel in the crown being two heavyweight gatefold vinyl albums.

We wanted to depict the warm and experimental nature of jazz by using bright, organic and abstract hand drawn shapes for the album sleeves. Finally we used a mix of clean and bold typography that would contrast with the playful shape compositions.