So while working on fixing up The Made Shop website over the holidays, I realized that we’d never posted the liner notes Nathan and I did for the The Fray’s second album artwork.
It’s one of my favorite things we’ve ever made, and I’m not quite sure how we missed putting them up in our portfolio until now.
We had designed neon signs for every song title on the album, had them fabricated, and then spent a week or so in a rented SUV with generators, extension cords, and cameras roadtripping all over (The Fray’s home state of) Colorado to different specifically meaningful locations to photograph each song’s lyric spread in the liner notes.
With most people buying albums digitally these days, this sort of immersive visual storytelling experience seems to be quickly disappearing.
And while seeing it online isn’t quite the same as holding it in your hands reading along as you listen to the album for the first time, here it is anyway.
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one of my favorite examples of taking typography off of paper and onto concrete things
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vialila said:
i am beyond reading liner notes without a magnifying glass, alas.
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These are beyond amazing.
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The album art for The Fray is so beautiful.
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kim-asterisk said:
love it! one day I have to tell you my Fray story.
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jordynmyah said:
These are gorgeous Marke <3
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loveallthis said:
This is inventive, impressive, and gorgeous. Awesome work.
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