DEAF BEFORE DISHONOUR

deafbeforedishonour@hotmail.com (Marcus Fletcher) — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:35:00 +0000

The below was for my single on Chateaudisc Records in Japan. I've always played around with possible album covers and posters etc for my own projects, but when it actually comes down to designing one for real, its really hard to decide on a concept!
My other two releases were both in an orangey colourway, so I wanted to step away from it, choosing the blue and gold seemed like a perfect alternative.
I really like how the titles sit on this, and for ultimate personolisation, I used images of A: my face and B: my tattoos. There is no mistaking who made the record!!

Jon Kennedy Single Artwork

deafbeforedishonour@hotmail.com (Marcus Fletcher) — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:20:00 +0000

This sleeve was designed for recording artist Jon Kennedy (Tru-Thoughts, Grand Central, Organik Recordings). I had freedom to come up with the concept in its entirity. I noticed that the word Demon contained the word 'demo', so I tried to draw the eye towards that part of the word on the cover. The cassette image came afterwards and it made sense to me to use it.
For alot of musicians (me included) you could suggest that the act of making music could be a form of therapy, thus - exorcising ones demons.

Hero No.7 single Artwork

deafbeforedishonour@hotmail.com (Marcus Fletcher) — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:59:00 +0000

Designed for beat diggers & production perfectionists Hero Number 7.
They were my label mates on 7 Hills Records, on which they received critical acclaim for their single 'Keeping It Real'.
The brief for this, their first release on their own label was a simple premise - make it look like the record COULD be old.I did that on the back of the sleeve, while on the front I gave it a nice clean vector treatment, with that smooth train image....really nice.

DBD ism

deafbeforedishonour@hotmail.com (Marcus Fletcher) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:17:00 +0000

The enemy of creativity is the desire to appear 'cool' .