Simon Birky Hartmann / Projects / Gaz Newton

Gaz Newton - Lovheroin [LP]

May 19, 2021

Here it is! Here's the final art for Gaz Newton's Loveheroin album. You can listen to the album on Bandcamp, Apple Music, and beyond. You should also absolutely pick up one of the physical records (we had to adjust the art on the stick...

Gaz Newton - Loveheroin [LP]

May 19, 2021

We were so close to the final art we could taste it! We decided to shrink the type one more time, and to play some more with color palettes.

Gaz Newton - Loveheroin [LP]

May 19, 2021

After scrapping the EP, we decided to tackle the art for the album itself. The first idea was to go back to some of the themes of the singles, but adding elements that belonged to all the stories being told in the songs. The second ide...

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Gaz Newton - Loveheroin [EP] (scrapped)

May 19, 2021

After the previous set of iterations, we chose to focus on the bunring phone idea for a while, because the others were either too close to the single covers, or too close to other covers done for artists on the same label (we'll get to t...

Gaz Newton - Loveheroin [EP] (scrapped)

May 18, 2021

After our work on all the singles, we were going to release these as an EP to pave the road for the release of the album. We went through lot of variations there. First, trying to combine elements from the three covers, then relying on ...

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Gaz Newton - Colorado [single] - type tests

May 18, 2021

Part of the variation work done for the artwork pertaining to the track Colorado includes distortion experiments. These are all done manually, while scanning the printed type bits needed for the cover. It's really fun, and you ought to ...

Gaz Newton - City song [single]

May 12, 2021

The third single art I worked to support Gaz Newton's Loveheroin album release is called City Song. I used the track title as an excuse to find as many cool buildings to assemble together in a coherent ensemble. The process to get to t...

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Gaz Newton - Colorado [single]

May 12, 2021

After the work we did on Three Minutes to the Ground, we started exploring visuals for the next single off of the album Loveheroin. The track is called Colorado. We also made a large amount of variations for this one, but they were less...