Album Cover Design: Let the Guitar Speak by electro 53

I designed this album cover artwork this month. An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. This artwork made with my client also this album artist. My client given this guitar and amplifier photograph. I made front jacket including inside 2 pages and backside total 4 pages, rear jacket with backside (inside CD tray), side cap, and disc label. I made album title logo, artist logo, and record level logo. I'm very glad my client favorites this design. This pic is not real CD photo. I made crop and paste on blank CD image for finishing product image. I was cut the front jacket image pic with side cap same as rear jacket. It is not so difficulty make myself. I will introduce next time.

electro 53

Electro 53 is instrumental music unit by Takashi Gomi and Syuhei Onga. T-BOLAN's guitarist Takashi Gomi perform the electric guitar like a singing. He is my best client. Syuhei Onga playing base and sound programming. Their sound is the electronica rock. The electric guitar and the base added on the programming track.

The Horror Illustration by Handy Drawing

This is a cover art of the music CD with which I dealt in 2007. A client is my friend and is a drummer of a band called JERICHO BUNCH which loves music called Psychobilly supremely. I who have taken charge of the art of the first full album that is not compilation was honorable. This draft was drawn according to his image. It is not my way of thinking. I drew the near rough with the pencil first. Then, I inked with the pen used by comics.

DYUMBO "SPLASH" Cover Artwork

This composes by DTM by me, and is a cover artwork of recorded CD. My handle name as the musician is DYUMBO. The name of the album is "SPLASH". CD has not been completed yet. MP3 is being sold at http://www.thesixtyone.com/dyumo/.

JERICHO BUNCH Album Artwork

Poptoonstudio handled the album artwork of three piece band "JERICHO BUNCH" of wood base ERI with the Inoue brother. This is famous psychobilly indie band in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. The name of "JERICHO BUNCH" out on sale album. Psychobilly is a musical genre that contains the PUNK element by the rockabilly in the 1950's, develops, and was born in the 1980's. THE CRAMPS and BATMOBILE are famous. The fashion and scream to associate horror are features.

This album art was requested from NAOKI of the drum. The photograph in the cover is the one having taken they, by confidence,The contrast was raised with the Photoshop, and the photograph was converted into two steps (pink and the black).

Dr.TOSH? "Vaga! Raga!" Cover Artwork

This is 2nd solo album of bassist Dr.TOSH? a.k.a. Toshimitsu Nagai ex."Rosa Luxenburg" and "BO GUMBOS". Poptoonstudio designed CD cover artwork(front top cover, Back cover, forward cover, inside art and illustrrations, CD label design and everything design.

It met Dr.TOSH? to me in the openair gathering festival "Nijino Misaki Matsuri" held in Aso in Japan in around 2000. At that time, Dr.TOSH? acted as a bassist of the band "Aqua bomb". The guitar of "Aqua bomb" at that time is Marron a.k.a. Yasuhiko Tanaka who is acting by the name "dub marronics" now. Dub marronics plays original DeLay work and the one person plays psychedelic music of guitar electronica by sampling the reverberation.
Donto is guitar vocal of BO GUMBOS he performed to "Niji no
Misaki Matsuri" at that time by solo. In some open-air music festivals, it met TOSH. And, when Dr.TOSH? and restarting in the open-air music festival "Jugoya Otsukisan" done in Yamaguchi where I had handled the poster and the flyer, he terribly liked the poster.

This album artwork received the request directly from Dr.TOSH?. His hope was for "VAGA! RAGA!" to dash out from the Magic lamp like The Thousand and One Nights and to have wanted it based on Arab and red brown like India. The font script was hope that also Arabic streamline. I added the ribbon based on a counterplan and free font in 1950's American. In addition, a top jacket was completed repeating several-time corrections. The image of the lamp was obtained from the Internet, and the illustration of Magic Lamp was traced on the Adobe Illustrator.


The other side of the surface after it becomes like the booklet ,in a word, the back becomes it like this. When the booklet is expanded, the illustration is connected. The original label mark "Flying Fuji" of the mark and Dr.TOSH? of credit, description of the CD handling notes, trademark of poptoonstudio, and record label "Wild 7" has been described on the reverse. The illustration was traced on the Adobe Illustrator based on the photograph in Arabia.


It is a preview of the artist name and the album name of the jacket and the CD side where the name of a song in the back of CD was described. The screen tone of Adobe Photoshop was used for his old photograph because of wanting TOSH.

You can try to listen sample mp3 on Dr.TOSH? Myspace
Please visit his myspace.

Also I draw many illustration on the booklet inside. You can see more design if you buy CD.

It is a Japanese promo word as follows. "フェスタマンDr.TOSH?の真骨頂！
アカデミック・サイケな未来派ダンス天国へようこそ!!

常にページを捲り続けるフェスタマンDr.TOSH？の次なるキーワード『Vaga！Raga！』あらゆるジャンルを軽々と飛び超え、無国籍に！センセーショナルに！グルービーに！コーティング！これぞ、フェスタマンDr.TOSH？の真骨頂！！伝説のバンド、ROSA LUXEMBURG、BO GUMBOS そしてAQUA BOMB を経てたどり着いたアカデミック・サイケなダンス天国が、今、意識不明の魂たちを確実にスクラッチする！"

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I recommend for you if you like Cajun, Blues and Asian Music.