LINO

Tom P is a print maker who runs Bird Apartment Printing in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. I have enjoyed the music he makes in such bands as Slingshot Dakota and Ultimate Warriors for a few years now. When I found out he screen printed the artwork for Carly Comando's debut album...



...I thought I may as well give him a message to try and gain a better understanding of how it all came together...

- What inspired you to create the artwork for the CD?
my inspiration came from combining some elements from a series of fine art prints i did and a drawing that i did for Carly's tattoo. It mostly has to do with my love and respect for animals, and how much i dislike the hunting and killing of them.

- How many did you end up making and how long did it take?
i printed a little over a thousand covers. i'm not really sure how long it took... i did three separate batches of covers. i know it took quite a bit of time, though!!!

- Is there a hidden concept behind the artwork?
no, there is no hidden concept... i just like to make art that i think looks cool. oh, there is a hidden visual element in the drawing that i did for Carly, but i'll leave it for people to find.

- Did you have a specific target audience in mind?
just people who love Carly and deer... hahaha!

- Did Carly have any input to the creation of the artwork?
well, she really liked my fine art stuff, and also really liked the drawing for her tattoo. i think that she requested the color pink, but i'm not sure... my favorite color is pink, so i'm not sure if it was her idea or mine. also, the idea of printing the photo of her on the inside cover was my idea... she was against it at first, but i talked her into it.

MAJOR PROJECT.

Thought I would just write an update of what has been going on over the last three weeks since we got our brief.

Easter has not really been hectic at all for me, although I would like to say it has. I've just been taking it easy back home in Morley and getting on with some work. Trying to get a fair bit of work done each day has been proven to be quite hard as old friends (who I don't like to call 'old friends') have been calling me up and knocking at my door a fair few times.

I decided to design and make a limited CD for my band Walden. I am aiming to work out how I could create something different from just the regular CD case and insert. So I have decided to screen print the artwork onto my own hand made packaging. I still don't know how or what this will look like, or how this is going to be done, but I am getting ever closer by looking at some of my favorite CD artwork and the designers that create them. Looking at their techniques, the materials they are using and their styles to see if I can incorporate all of this into my final piece.

Really can't wait to get this research over and done with so I can get into actually creating something physical.

JACK TEAGLE

Amazing illustrator from the South West of England. He keeps many sketchbooks and goes through many tubes of paint. He loves collecting action figures, reading badly written silver age comics and watching classic horror films.

Print outsssss

WALDEN TAPEEEEE

Got the template through today from the guys at Tye Die Tapes and thought I may as well have a go at doing something, as our printing has been a turd lately, so I can't do any work for the project.



Outside.



Inside, turned 90° counter-clockwise.


I'm happy with what I have made. I sent it to the Lev and he really likes it.