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CLOUD

Camouflage and Cloud

When two meaningless are layered.

Clouds don’t have meanings.
And camouflage neither.
When camouflage and clouds are layered, viewers find messages that differ each.

Military cloth on wood panel, acrylic. 2022

Rocksteady is not Dead (Fictitious Events Poster as a Gift)

Fictitious Events Poster as a Gift

This poster exist only 1 piece each color variation, which owned by a couple living separately in France and UK.

Contents of the events are fictitious referencing the words from their shared experience.

Soul Vibration (7inch Record Box Set Full Cover Artwork)

SOUL VIBRATION
Herman Chin Roy’s Funky Jamaican Trip

Printed four color screen print.
Made four pattern color scheme.

Le Vieux Shnok (Fictitious Events Poster as a Gift)

Fictitious Events Poster as a Gift

This poster exist only 1 piece each color variation, which owned by a couple living separately in France and UK.

Contents of the events are fictitious referencing the words from their shared experience.

RUB A DUB (Secousse Records)

SOUND SYSTEM TAPES JAMAICA|Paper Back Cover

The Small Axe Guide to
Sound System Tapes Jamaica
by Ray Hurford

A paperback cover.
In the ’80s and ’90s, reggae dancehall culture spread underground worldwide by cassette tapes live-recorded at the dancehall event in Jamaica. For the audiences outside Jamaica, tapes were the only way to know what was happening and invented on the small island.
That tapes had energetic vibes and enough information to blast our minds and imagination. Even missing elements help us amplify our imagination.
This book collects historical Soundsystem information and nostalgic stories of tape collectors about the tape culture for enthusiasts who have the same experience. A switch to recall their memories.
So we designed its cover to attract attention and flashback them.

Concept of Design

We designed its cover to attract attention and make flashbacks.
・Easy-to-understand it’s about Sound Tapes
・Uniqueness of cassette tapes.
・A feeling of time slip.
・Visualize memory.
Cassette Tapes are a physical music format and have unique memorizable features.
Tapes had two sides and were stored in a cassette. Sometimes, it went outside accidentally.
Sound Tapes were released by Jamaican soundsystems ( movable disco systems with massive speaker walls and crews) and copied among fans outside Jamaica. The covers of cassettes have each soundsystems’ name. After being dubbed repeatedly, covers were lost, and only memos of the names were written.
Front; A cassette and a overflying tape with soundsystem names on both sides, forming a swirl like a time tunnel. It also expresses flush of information from a small cassette.
Back; Tapes wriggling in box of echo system.
Inside: The imagined scenery of dancehall.
Clouds express the smoky dancehall and imagination.
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LIBERTY FORCE #3|Music Cover Art

Liberty Force

Cover design of LIBERTY FORCE
(Logo designed by LIBERTY FORCE).

A single from Shingo MAEKAWA’s  upcoming first solo album, features a Japanese raggamuffin style rapper Bugimaru.

This tune is a kind of modern rendering of Old School Hip-hop by two Japanese artists from different fields of music.
One is a techno beat-maker HIROKAWA Tetsushi as known as Ryukyu Disco. The other is MAEKAWA Shingo a vocalist from Rock band Kariyushi58.

Track by TETSUSHI HIROYAMA (Ryukyu Disco)
Rap by SHINGO MAEKAWA (Kariyushi58), BUGIMARU

This design is connected with ZAMPA DREAM

MAJOR LEISURE TAPE by tajima hal|ミックステープカバー

かすがい三宿 presents
mixed by tajima hal

東京料理を標榜する人気飲食店『かすがい三宿』プレゼンツによるMIX TAPE “MAJOR LEISURE TAPE”。ミックスはビートメイカーの tajima hal 氏。

 

カバー画像を担当しました。テープの選曲の世界観に「鎹(かすがい)」の意味をあわせもたせ描いた風景です。

soundcloudで楽しめるので是非。
side A (vol.1):
https://soundcloud.com/mulloifu6sxu/kasugai-side-a
side B (vol.2):
https://soundcloud.com/mulloifu6sxu/kasugai-side-b

かすがい三宿:Instagram
tajima hal:Instagram

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