brief / approach

Working Week were the first Jazz Dance band (a very popular genre in London for a couple of years).  I was given carte blanche to create their 'identity', my favourite thing to do. The style (which was carried through a number of releases) is a nod to the old Blue Note jazz label of New York, with a wide white band at the top, a narrower one at the bottom, a compact font, and very tightly cropped black and white photography.

The hand-drawn logo shows a different time of day on every release, sometimes a significant one of the working day.

The painted section of the front is flat brush daubs on 'canvas' textured art board. The back is a template of columns, with lots going on visually that was used for various matching  back cover laouts

The label is a halftone of part of the cover, printed in a different colour...

backstory

I usually made artwork 12" square as there weren't many flatbed scanners that went bigger than that - the relatively new rotary scanners were an issue - fine for transparencies & paper but sometimes the operators would peel  the artwork card to split it in half (in layers) to get it to bend onto the drum -  and unfortunately I had a handful of painted/collaged artworks fucked up back then - rotary scanners have become ubiqutous since then...