HALO 8 - 30th Anniversary
Another set of psuedo-90's-retro designs to acknowledge the thirtieth birthday of The Downward Spiral.
I wasn't old enough to experience this album new, but instead found it sometime in my early twenties. After listening to it so many times, you memorize an album front to back and it gets into your blood.
Then not listening to it for years, and reapproaching it again is like a reminder of where and what you were, but also gives you fresh ears to appreciate its inherent qualities.
It's an album that stands out amongst it's peers and reaches out into the future, if only because it didn't get trapped by anything "contemporary" by its decade. It's still caustic, dramatic, grating, but also meloncholy, grounded in an internal struggle, an existential war with God and Self. Maybe I'm projecting.
Anyways, the design goal was to keep with the era, and make some designs that could have feasibly been released in 1994, with some fun easter eggs. Here's to another 30, when I'll be approaching 64.
Grab them over on my redbubble.
