Bloodline
Yesterday Rosetta’s Ruin finally released their new EP Bloodline. This has some great tracks on it that I’ve been loving for a while. I enjoy hearing them at shows and was excited for everyone to be able to get them from the physical EP that they had me design.
I have been designing the EP back since, well last year I believe. We have been through so many different ideas and concepts for the artwork that I actually lost count. For every design idea there would be different colour/image combinations and then at least 5 different logo and title arrangements per design. Whenever we came close to finalizing the design we would change it, and find something better.
The guys shot around ideas for me to play with based on the EP theme, but they didn’t really know what they wanted so I just had to work to the best I could and send samples to see what they would like. We changed from drawing to digital to just edited photos and this was the final design we settled on:
As I only really had a few ideas, I had to work off my own style and try to fit it to the band. I worked a lot with their previous imagery so this meant that sticking to my own personal style would have fit the imagery the band already uses, and I took influences from these bands and albums:
In the end I ended up changing to just a whole image and thought that the colours of this image worked well. It was a snap I took on a ferry to the Isle of Wight in May and the blank open look on the water fits well with the deep emotion of some of the songs. The inside of the EP took a lot of work too, which you wouldn’t really expect. There were conflicting opinions within the band of how it should be laid out and what should be included, but in the end we came up with this.
(updated photos when I manage to get my hands on a physical copy).
The EP can be downloaded from their Bandcamp: https://rosettasruin.bandcamp.com/
In preparation for their EP release, we also took some portrait shots a few months back. I kept them secret until the EP was released, and they have used a few in posts over the time of the build up for the release.
I was happy with this shoot as it only took a rough half an hour, and it has been our most successful shoot yet. I like the images and feel that they are produced at better quality than our previous shoots. I also think the guys are beginning to become more confident and comfortable with shoots, which makes it easier, and the composition and posing used is improving.
