Nick Cave album designs

This is a project I really enjoyed - redesigning Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' album Murder Ballads. It's a fine album but the album art (left) is fairly bizarre. Was Thomas Kinkaide involved? The album redesigns below date back to last autumn, when my now well-worn Intuos tablet was shiny and new. I tried out three different concepts - hit the jump to see two additional designs.

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Also glory be - Blogger has redesigned their interface, posting is so much easier now! I also started a tumblr, so this blog will be exclusively finished work from now on - for works in progress, sketches, and random stuff check out my tumblr.