EVERY so often I get to work with one of my best friends and favorite artist Dan Zettwoch on some band artwork. The Humanoids first EP is the second collaboration of what Dan and I dubbed “Lamb Grenade” (the first being the debut 7” of Cross Examination). For this release the band asked us to capture the simplistic nature of early mid 80’s and early 90’s pop-punk. Think the Descendents, ALL, etc , etc. The Humanoids first t-shirt design featured a half-man, half-robot drawing that Dan drew up, which the band sort of adopted as their identity.
THE creative mind of Greg Stinson (guitarist and good friend) came up with the idea of an infant robotic baby inside the womb of a women and naming the ablum “The Humanoids are Born”. The first step for the project was to get the baby drawn up and ready for imaging. Dan drew up a rough comp and with Greg’s approval we were off and running.
WITH the robot baby drawn up and ready for placement, I began laying out the type, placed in the vector art, laid out the type, readied the images & finished laying in the PMS colors. The finished product featured a metallic spot color that really added a nice element of depth. Not shown in the jpeg’s is the on-disc, which featured the robotic baby free of the womb, and the back try showing the womb only. The layout features a lot of white space, which is reminiscent of the early album art of the Descendents. The scratched out type, full adjusted type and over exposed film frame added a little extra pop-punk flavor.
IF you get a chance to check out the humanoids, do so. They are a great band filled with top notch people. http://www.myspace.com/thehumanoidsruleearth
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