fizzkinz Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 EP7, Confield, Draft, Untilted So basically the non-TDR stuff It's true... chiastic and envane are really good too, so I'm not trying to just shit on TDR But seriously the 4 mentioned above are the absolute tops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 chiastic slide envane cichlisuite ep7 draft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaggerMcGuirk Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 EP7 with the frosted case. LP5 as an object. Amber is pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Draft 7.30, if I had to choose one. Although CGI, it has the appeal and complexity of a living, breathing organism. One of Alex Rutterford's works (along with the Gantz Graf vid) if I'm not mistaken. Haven't seen any Ae LP/EP cover artwork as sophisticated before or since.Envane and Chiastic Slide tho...either one of them would be a close second. They remind of graphics from the earliest full 3D computer games, like Continuum or Another World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 draft is cool but doesn't fit the music at all tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaderpansen Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 draft is cool but doesn't fit the music at all tbh. draft artwork = spacious, bright, "expressionist", pompous / angelic draft musics = intimate (almost claustrophobic), dark, rather monochrome, focus on the micro ... IMHO. the greenish / glow-in-the-dark-without-the-glow color scheme is ok tho. cassette version fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-a-m-o Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 chiastic slide / untilted / draft 7.30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entropi Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 EP7 Exai & L-event (interesting too that it might "mean" something too, like some kind of QR-code...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draft78 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 As it seems that the most recent artworks did not raise too much enthusiasm among you (except for ae_live), I must admit that the circles and squares of elseq have fascinated me right from the start. Last year I wrote this: "the immediate aspect of elseq artwork is the systematic destruction of the principle of balance. I don't think you could have a series of circles and squares in a more unstable logic, as has built our "sense of space." There is a perverse attention in all this.". ...mhh, that "systematic destruction" sound quite pathetic but the concept remains valid. Yet today, in seeing the tDR press that assembles all the elseq graphics, I recognize a sense of overall balance. I must also admit to not being a big fan of Draft7.30 artwork: overly graphic and maximalist, with unnecessarily hints of perspective: personally am more intrigued by ideas that make use of a few signs, less attentive to aesthetics but to suggest an obscure semiologic background (Oversteps criptyc circle, Exai and the probable allusion to the "game of life", and so on). The Incunabula graphics leaves me completely indifferent: it could be the flyer of any generic electronic event in the nineties. Untilted and Ep7: yeah! PS: I also have that problem about block's stupid faces, but only with L-event, not with Exai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 great job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 PS: I also have that problem about block's stupid faces, but only with L-event, not with Exai. by peace 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 ^ amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handels Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 draft is cool but doesn't fit the music at all tbh. draft artwork = spacious, bright, "expressionist", pompous / angelic draft musics = intimate (almost claustrophobic), dark, rather monochrome, focus on the micro Draft artwork is cheesy. Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 draft is cool but doesn't fit the music at all tbh. draft artwork = spacious, bright, "expressionist", pompous / angelic draft musics = intimate (almost claustrophobic), dark, rather monochrome, focus on the micro Draft artwork is cheesy. Discuss. Agreed. It would fit in a shitty over-decorated fantasy videogame (and i like Rutterford designs generally). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draft78 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 PS: I also have that problem about block's stupid faces, but only with L-event, not with Exai. by peace 7 I think my facial problems with L-Evant will be unleashed just after unfortunately saw this drawing draft is cool but doesn't fit the music at all tbh. draft artwork = spacious, bright, "expressionist", pompous / angelic draft musics = intimate (almost claustrophobic), dark, rather monochrome, focus on the micro Draft artwork is cheesy. Discuss. Agreed. It would fit in a shitty over-decorated fantasy videogame (and i like Rutterford designs generally). I agree: it's seem to be a blatantly digital and redundant graphic, which responds to a generic definition of "abstraction", just because there are curves and irregular lines that intertwine. I'm very involved in the subsequent albums graphic, permeated in the same mystery of their music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 no ciclisuite love? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overand Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 I like how Amber fits into their discography as an anomaly in so many ways including being the only unaltered real world photo they've used as a cover. It'd be interesting if they went back to that at some point but I doubt they ever will since they honed their own niche. Chiastic Slide has been giving me a headache since I found out that's supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover in the same way that Envane is Fallingwater. Also, Envane is tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Chiastic Slide has been giving me a headache since I found out that's supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover for reals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy_politics Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 oh that's easy; chiastic slide, by miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 i love exai, quaristice and untilted. i think the tdr stuff is brilliant actually, but i do hope for a radical switch next album art though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overand Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Chiastic Slide has been giving me a headache since I found out that's supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover for reals? https://www.creativereview.co.uk/the-designers-republic-remembered/ “I was looking at the skyscrapers in New York. When I came back we started playing around with abstracting architectural forms. The natural lines of the skyscrapers, from these photos I’d taken, gave lines of perspective that formed an almost 3D grid. The black shape in the foreground of the cover is one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, as seen from the Empire State Building. The type isn’t a font, it’s all just hand done, making a font that’s just made up from blocks” Feel free to try and figure the perspective out yourself http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/45-gigapixel-photo-from-empire-state-building/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnwarAutokino Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Chiastic Slide has been giving me a headache since I found out that's supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover for reals? https://www.creativereview.co.uk/the-designers-republic-remembered/ “I was looking at the skyscrapers in New York. When I came back we started playing around with abstracting architectural forms. The natural lines of the skyscrapers, from these photos I’d taken, gave lines of perspective that formed an almost 3D grid. The black shape in the foreground of the cover is one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, as seen from the Empire State Building. The type isn’t a font, it’s all just hand done, making a font that’s just made up from blocks” Feel free to try and figure the perspective out yourself http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/45-gigapixel-photo-from-empire-state-building/ fascinating! thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 garbage and gantz graf are also cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghOsty Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Amber, Anvil Vapre, Envane, Draft 7.3, Untitled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Untilted closely followed by Quaristice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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