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I found three anonymous Mughal album folios from the 1600s and 1700s in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection, and built a custom Recraft Style from their salmon-pink borders, flat perspective and fine watercolour detail. I used that style to paint modern Lahore life as a Mughal album painter might have seen it: food-delivery riders, video calls, earbuds and e-scooters, all inside the old album frames. The style stays centuries old; only the subjects are new. Each image below pairs the archive original (left) with the new Recraft image (right).
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Is text on album covers really tacky?
This question has been doing the rounds on X and I have to say, I'm firmly on the other side of that argument. I've always loved seeing typography become part of the artwork rather than just a title sitting on top of it.
So I wanted to put that idea to the test with an imagined album called Nothing Stays Still, inspired by change, fleeting moments and everything in between:)
I played around with the lettering until it felt expressive, a little restless, and inseparable from the photograph.
Because I think badly considered typography is tacky. Typography itself? Give it a chance :)
What's an album cover where the type really makes it for you?
Text on album covers is tacky? Whatever 🤌🏼 Vienna Starlight Boom 😒
Typography can ABSOLUTELY make an album cover.
During the pandemic, I got obsessed with album cover design. I'd spend hours looking at covers, researching the designers behind them, and trying to understand the decisions and creative processes that made them work.
It was one of those design rabbit holes I could never get tired of. 💀
I'm bringing that interest back with a new cover inspired by the music I love, including Neil Young's Harvest, Bandalos Chinos' Paranoia Pop and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats' Vol. 1.
Looking at these alongside other great album covers, one thing stands out: typography CAN be the image!
I took inspiration and designed one as well!
What's an album cover where the typography is impossible to separate from the artwork? Show me your favorites.
Reid Miles' Blue Note covers are my pick, where the cropped oversized lettering carries as much mood as any photo could. Your Paranoia Pop treatment has that quality too, the letterforms feel poured into the image rather than placed on it.
Never seen an e-commerce store on @Framer
So I built one for Sensul.
Only because it was the right call for the client. Full CMS control, no developers on standby, just them running their store.
Dawit Woldemariam had a design background, so Framer made sense for him.
The harder challenge was the design.
Inspiration: Basquiat's art style turned into Ethiopian style.
The brief: "Make it artistic without overwhelming the site."
Result: Basquiat art style X Ethiopian literature.
A storefront, nothing like I've ever seen before in other art gallery sites.
Note: The live site has since been discontinued, so the link below goes to the project I designed in Framer if you want to check it out.
https://sensul.framer.website/ (there is a cool parallax effect when you scroll)
DM me if you want to tell a story through your brand/website.
Full CMS control with no developer on standby is a strong reason to pick Framer for a store like this. The Basquiat inspired visual direction gives it a personality most ecommerce sites lack.