rabidgrounds self-titled 2020 album artwork design & packaging. CD packaging images atop original photography by Sydney Hughes of band member Michael. a flea on the mind. In 2020, I created the album art for the band’s self titled album rabidgrounds. The band had discussed with me that they were interested in creating a personal motif of two black dogs and wanted the album art to be original artwork of this. I created original artwork illustrations with gouache, ink, graphite, and colored pencil. I wanted to be minimal with the artwork and highly stylized rather than highly rendered and illustrative. I also created a motif of the line running across the cover, the line trailing from the dog’s bloodied mouth to be clever incorporation of their ideas and mine. When the band decided to have CDs of the album made, I was then asked to design the backside of the album with the track listing and other necessary information. The band desired a serif typeface for this design as well. I continued the line motif to the backside of the CD to be the guideline for where the track listing would rest. The color palette on the backside reflected the color palette on the front side. The disc design utilized the same typeface but with a glowing effect on the type. The rest of the disc design was the same charcoal black shade as was used on the album cover. This disc was then printed through Atomic Disk. Supplemental photography was taken by me as well. Text box is atop original photography by Sydney Hughes of band member Michael and Brendan. Track listing and album duration is atop original photography by Sydney Hughes of band member Janglin.