But, I guess I am a graphic designer because I always like album covers and music design in general... I do with music what I do with images on this site, always making selections, compilations, etc... Even easier with itunes now, buying only the songs that I like... But nothing can replace the real CD, I love special edition, digipack, etc...

All that to say with tools we have today I want to share with you more music... We will start with The Swell Season, that you may know for the movie Once... I discovered them with the movie, and it is the perfect example of how images can show you music in a different way... You can not be touched the same way if you have seen the movie or not...

Last year they issued a second album, to be honest less deep that the first one (but maybe because there was no movie associated that time ;) I really like the front sleeve, as well as the global design... And a good point, for the price of one album, you have a nice package, an album, an amazing live performance on CD and a great DVD documentary... The best way to let people buy real items instead of downloading them...

Thanks again to Damien for his help to improve my english...

From then it was a fairly visceral approach, not much time to over-think and so retains some of that original energy. I wanted the design (and particularly the colours) to be seductive and sensual (touching on sexual?), perhaps even a little tense, a typical relationship between one and another.

The cover is an SEM (Scanned Electron Micrograph) of two blood corpuscles - so graceful and calm, yet with all the passionate, fleshy associations that blood carries and the reverse is an SEM of a broken fingernail, all course and jagged, there’s a narrative if you wish to see one, otherwise they’re opposites of a fashion which come together on occasion."

This album is for me one of the best I have heard, I love it, and the cover is simply aprefervisual interpretation of it...