John Mayer's 'Born & Raised' Artwork
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- ernexbcn0
Wonderful.
- 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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- BaskerviIle0
PS. more info on his site here:
http://davidadriansmith.com/2012…
- 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.
- 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.
- utopian0
What does "fredddddd" think?
- bored2death0
Great find! Thanks for sharing.
- 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...
- qTime0
Fantastic talented guy!
Not sure why he vectorised it though.
- JG_LB0
fuckin shit thats talent
- dbloc0
great video.
- OSFA0
David Smith is a genius. So jealous!
- mg330
Um. Wow. Could you imagine spending a year with that guy to learn even 1/10th of that craft?
- trendkill0
i hope that he is passing it on to someone.
- Llyod0
reminds me of chris ware
- nikdaum0
Wow. That is craftsmanship.
- hektor9110
Superb work!
- fredddddd0
He draws it perfectly many times at many sizes and then converts it all to vector, then he paints it?
Amazing.
- dbloc0
so that's who designed http://www.letterheadfonts.com/
I looked at his site and it looks exactly the same.