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The first portion of my complete rehaul of my favorite band's public image. As a long-time fan, I was extremely disappointed in the design and promotion (or lack thereof) of The Cure's final album on the Fiction Records label, where they'd been for over twenty years. The album dealt with themes of growing older, mortality, religion and loneliness, but the only artwork associated with the album was this horrible photo of the band's lead singer, run through a quick Photoshop filter and mixed up with some nasty, undesigned type. It seriously looked like they'd forgotten to do any work on the art direction until the night before it went to press. I took the themes present in the songs themselves and translated it to the slow decay, uneasiness and eventual deterioration of architecture and other inanimate objects. The cover image is a photograph I'd taken of a cracked, fading wall in a friend's damp basement. Obviously, the surface behind the crack wasn't a bright red as it appears now, but once I'd added that simple effect the album's title, Bloodflowers, seemed a little more applicable to the artwork.
You can check out one of the interior spreads by clicking here, if you're interested.
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