You have done a very nice work on fonts for this album and the singles behind it, they are almost logos by themselves, can you describe your precess behind this ?

For "Mercury Falling" I wanted to create the look of elegant typography that was degraded, influenced or worn down with age. I experimented with layering letterforms in Photoshop, erasing bits, then blurring, bitmapping and redrawing elements. The forms that arose out of this experimentation were sometimes surprising.

The design is based on the photo taken by William Claxton & Fabrizio Ferri, did you choose the front sleeve image by yourself, or does the record company, and the artist, for this kind of "big" project, are very directive ?

The cover image was chosen by Sting and myself. We looked at numerous options but William Claxton's pensive portrait captured the essence of the record very well.

Very precise question that will let you know how much I know my subject ;) In the english spoken countries, the design of the album is with purple type and brown photos, while in other countries what is purple on the first sleeve is gold, while the pictures are more purple... do you have any idea why ???

Yes! When designing packages for the different territories we would change up the color schemes to make the product more unique/exclusive for each region. They would also add bonus tracks exclusive to each region. It helped diminish the sale of imports, thereby securing better sales for each market.

You also design the singles sleeve for this album, did they come to you one by one or record company plan everything at the beginning ?

The sleeves are designed one at a time, as the singles are chosen. "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" was designed at the same time as the CD packaging and shares the most in common in terms of design and color scheme.