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May 30, 2013

Undercover: Spotlight: Jordan Butcher/Work of Self

Seattle-based Jordan Butcher crafts gorgeously textured album artwork under his nom de création Work of Self.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Design Reference, Packaging, Professional Development, Profiles

April 22, 2013

Undercover: Storm Thorgerson 1944-2013

Since Thorgerson's death was announced Friday, dozens of worthy tributes have been written.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Packaging, Professional Development, Profiles

March 28, 2013

Undercover: Paul Sahre vs the Nanobots

Nanobots are tiny robots the size of a molecule.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Packaging, Professional Development, Profiles

March 12, 2013

Undercover: False-color before Instagram

Instagram filters have turned everyone into a photographer, resulting in an avalanche of faux-nostalgic images.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Color, Packaging, Pattern & Palette

February 12, 2013

Undercover: A few vaguely related thoughts

It's been 22 years since My Bloody Valentine's first album was released, and I'm disappointed, to say the least.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Color, Layouts, Packaging

January 21, 2013

Undercover: XXXXXXXX XXX XX XXXXXXXXX XXX.

Provocative new designs for David Bowie and George Orwell explore themes of obliterating or redacting information—and have set the comment boards ablaze.

Topics: Topics: Layouts, Packaging, Random

December 26, 2012

Undercover: A festive but predictable wonderland

Every Halloween, just after midnight, the silence is shattered by a terrifying sound — Christmas songs blaring unnaturally early out of every store and radio.

Topics: Topics: Branding Identity, Packaging, Pattern & Palette

December 4, 2012

Undercover: A brief autobiographical pause

If you spend enough time talking about music and album covers, every so often you'll be asked, "So, what was your first record?" This is an unfortunate situation if (a) you believe honesty is the best policy, and (b) your first record was Double Vision by Foreigner.

Topics: Topics: Layouts, Packaging, Product Design