Album Art

Scope Artist MeTaL released MBTA Music as the first single off of his “What Should I Call this Mixtape?” project. Expressing the universal frustration of public transportation, MBTA Music is a song anyone can relate to. We did a single cover for it using a collection of old MBTA passes from when they were colorful and interesting (like foriegn currency) – prior to the adoption of the Charlie Card. We then also did a custom graphic of the Charlie Card complete with Scoped out passengers.

One of the most exciting projects for us has been the materials for Retrospek‘s Sleepwalkers Remedy Album release. PS / Scope‘s own Jerome aka Syntaxx is the creatvie force who painted the portrait for the cover art. His street/sci-fi style was the perfect fit for this unearthly trio’s Album. The Front and back covers also feature handwritten titles by none other than Retro and CCR architect Rah Intelligence for a personal touch. The pill bottle motif is a reference to the “remedy” portion of the title: Surgeon General’s Warning: This Album May Wake You from Your Information Age Stupor. We also created a splash page to highlight the new project and their latest videos. http://originalretrospek.com/

Today (err yesterday technically) Anjuli Stars released her latest project “Starvation Volume II,” the much anticpated follow up to her acclaimed 1st Vol. Anjuli, originally from the 305, has strong ties to Boston and I had the pleasure of meeting her through my Scope Urban Apparel fam when she came to Boston to perform. I was glad to help with the album art and a landing page for her website to showcase the project. The cover art features illustration by Mike Oveido, originally seen on the single for “Buss Shots.” I worked around this amazing piece of art and tried not to take away from it. Anjuli’s vision was very clean and inspired by Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” but with an updated palette of typefaces and colors to bring out the FLavor. The landing page was a way to brand anjulistars.com for the current release and showcase the album and the video for “Buss Shots.”  Please do yourself a favor and go Download Starvation Volume II by Anjuli Stars FOR FREE! Then follow @anjulistars and @southdade records on twitter and like South Dade records on facebook. Stay tuned for more big things from Anujuli, South Dade and other Scope Artists.

As the world waits for O.T.O‘s “The Furnace” he wanted to release a project to compliment and buid up to it. This new project, called “Oven Door” already has a 2-part single and videos circulating which Political Pirates did the art for. The shoot was very simple. Kitchen, oven, low lights, doobie, Scope apparel, Polo – camera. We kept the post photo stuff to some minimal color changes and levels/curves. While the project was pretty simple we love the results – nice atmospheric and simple. Go check O. out at pswethebest.com. Shout out Big Byrd da Boss who filmed and directed the two promo videos. Download on fire Pt. 1 http://hulkshare.com/gtvuk4uwny3q Download On Fire Pt. 2 http://hulkshare.com/360e3qlj5zr5

When Pause dropped his second tape ‘Time to Go’ he enlisted us again to pull together the cover art and website. The cover photography was done by Nick Stringer at the Prudential Tower in front of the city. For the site we created a simple 1-pager that highlighted his music and videos. pausekid.com