JOE CONNORS

VIDEO EDITING

GRAPHIC DESIGN

JOE CONNORS

VIDEO EDITING

GRAPHIC DESIGN

bottlekids

What It Was:

EP and album art, video visualizer

Who It Was For:

Indie band

Applications Used:

Premiere Pro, Photoshop, InDesign, Dimension

Client Since:

2020 – Present

I made album art for several of the band's releases. For the single "Hate What You've Become," I took a Creative Commons image of a fossil and ran it through a defunct 3D function in Photoshop, then added a hole and shading in the center to give the effect of a vinyl record.

For the band's subsequent EP release, ironically titled Incel Country, I combined another two Creative Commons images — of a road and of the moon — and spammed the 'spot healing brush' to give the road its psychedelic effect.

It was fun to use found images for these projects and to see how far away from their origins I could take them. Third was an EP titled close all tabs, for which I used Adobe Dimension to position and distort molecule models. The band wanted something somewhere between the techno sheen of the 'gen x soft club' aesthetic and those old math textbooks, and it was fun to find that middle ground.

Finally, for Vidicated's album art, I traced the Peterson Nightcap pipe tobacco tin label in Illustrator, then overwrote all of the text in InDesign. If you look closely, the blue and yellow aren't completely lined up, imitating the slight misprint of the original labels.