email to danielle concept art

Danielle,

Album Cover Deets:

Background green or blue or something in between, but closer to blue if so.

I want the background to have a texture to it, but I’m not super sure how to explain that. Kind of like a rough wall that has been painted or like painted wood.

“Ben Idle” (capitalization not important) written across the middle of the top half in a shoelace style font. It doesn’t matter if this is a single string going all the way across, writing my name is cursive, or if each letter is allotted its own individual shoestring.

I want SHOE on top of GAZE in block format, similar to RUN DMC but not an obvious allusion to RUN DMC because that shit is played out ;) The words should be the correct height and width to form a square when stacked. These words are located in the bottom left corner of the album in and take up roughly a quarter of the cover. That’s just how I envision it; if you have a different idea that would look better, I trust your vision. Also I don’t know whether I like the idea of there being a hyphen at the end of SHOE or not…that’s your call too if you don’t mind)

On the back in the middle of the top half I want a shoelace heart. I’m going to use the bottom half for either listing credits or track-list type stuff.

I picture the shoelaces and the font for SHOEGAZE being white.

I hope this email conveys the idea well enough; text/email me if there’s anything else I forgot that you need to know.

Thanks Danielle!

-Idle