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untitled by eduardosancinetti on Flickr.

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Cesar Biojo (b. 1981, Cali, Colombia) - Untitled Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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Mes Desirs Font Des Ordres

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too dense by franz falckenhaus on Flickr.

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Georges Seurat. Mendiant Hindou, circa 1878-79, pencil on paper

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I wanted to mock up a redesign for the album cover of Cibo Matto’s Viva! La Woman (1996); I felt that the design and illustration of the official cover do not as sufficiently portray the album or the work that Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori were doing as it could have.

To capture the feel of the album - that of complicated loops yet beautiful clarity, mysterious language barriers (broken English, Japanese and Italian), exploration with food as metaphor and the silliness of food as theme - I drew inspiration from 1930s-40s Dutch design, 90s beauty advertisements, 90s print design and the music itself.

The redesign became a series of collectable covers, jesting at the “Collect ‘em all” advertising tactic highly prevalent in the late 90s and early 00s. The images were printed on a Risograph (a wonky Japanese digital duplicator from the 90s that is a cross between offset and screen-printing and prints in spot colors with gloriously sticky soy inks). The packaging is also a reference to vinyl records, as it is essentially a cd slipped inside a card-stock folder, topped off with a shiny plastic sleeve.

[ruder, isaac]

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