John Mayer's 'Born & Raised' Artwork
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- Llyod0
reminds me of chris ware
- JG_LB0
fuckin shit thats talent
- qTime0
Fantastic talented guy!
Not sure why he vectorised it though.
- OSFA0
Yeah, Mayer might be a douche but you know what, props to him for caring and searching for the right person to work on his album. Shows a lot of love, pride and involvement on his part.
I know artists and have worked with companies who just bang out generic covers and the artists never have a say or care much...
- bored2death0
Great find! Thanks for sharing.
- utopian0
What does "fredddddd" think?
- stoplying0
Loved this. While I have no real drawing or illustration skills to speak of, the amount of detail and precision that goes into this kind of work really impresses me.
I just found it silly to put this much effort into an album cover for a guy who has touched Jessica Simpson's boobs and is probably touching Katy Perry's boobs RIGHT NOW.
- pressplay0
incredibly skilled guy, yes. And very pleasing to see someone who masters a craft and does not zombie away in front of a computer. But I think the finished piece does look as if it was made with illustrator. Somehow too much, too loud, too crammed, just an unconcentrated overkill. I think he wanted to pull off every fucking trick he can do and so it became this way. Would be cooler if he worked more within the constraints of this technique.
- Totally agree.
A master knitter would impress me but prob wouldn't want to where the final product.fadein11
- Totally agree.
- BaskerviIle0
PS. more info on his site here:
http://davidadriansmith.com/2012…
- BaskerviIle0
I also wonder how much he was paid. I mean, that looks like months and months of work, hours and hours each day.
I imagine the average photographic album cover could be knocked out in a week plus photoshoot time. But this looks like tons more work.
If he was charging £400 a day (hardly anything for such rare skills and craftsmanship) for a month then that's £12,000 and I could see it costing more than that. But then I suppose if you hire a great photographer they cost a lot more than that for a shoot plus rights to the image etc. Plus design time.It makes you think about how much record companies spend on this stuff. I guess Mayer sells a crapload of albums so it's nothing to him.
Makes me think I should have charged more for the album covers I've designed. But then I didn't do it in glass!
- very expensive eye candy that does not communicate the music at allfadein11
- I think it actually does communicate the feel of that album. It's all about 70s folky/nostalgic sound which I think fitsBaskerviIle
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- ernexbcn0
Wonderful.
- fadein110
Very talented draughtsman. But retro and no concept.
Very nice work if feeling nostalgic - but its 2013.
- utopian0
I wonder how much he was paid?
- utopian0
this was superb!
- bmacneill0
I had always admired the cover, but never knew how it came together. Thanks for the link.
- dbloc0
so that's who designed http://www.letterheadfonts.com/
I looked at his site and it looks exactly the same.
- fredddddd0
He draws it perfectly many times at many sizes and then converts it all to vector, then he paints it?
Amazing.