Maris S.: design

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My very first vinyl design for Jalmar Vabarna's solo album "Minapilt".

All but his handwriting is again done by me.

Here's my design for SQUARE DOT's second studio album "Important Looking Random Stuff".

A little out-of-the-box for me, had to dig into underground hip-hop to get my mindset right.

Did a 4-side digipak, a CD design, 16-page booklet and a poster for this one.

Again, a project where I got to do everything from logo to handwritten details and all the photos, including a staged version of tracklist on the back.

I would kindly recommend you to check out his music and if you're not into hip-hop,

make the effort to read the lyrics.

A little fuck-you-all mixed with personal pain and honesty,

beautifully written.

/ 2014 /

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Album presentation poster /A3

One of my favorite Estonian musicians Mikk Tammepõld gave out his first solo album

at the end of 2013. Lyrics on "On asju, milles eksida ei saa" are mostly written by legendary Estonian poets through times.

In the design, we used my photos mixed with Mikk's illustrations.

Layout:

Matte 4-side digipak with a 8-page booklet inside.

No texts on the cover, always wanted to make one of these : )

Booklet:

Booklet: pg 01/08

Booklet: pg 02/03

Booklet: pg 04/05

Booklet: pg 05/07

Cover image

LOVE working with a band when I can do the whole package!

"Lätsi kõrtsu" album design, promo shoots, live photos, car design, logo, webpage, T-shirts, posters&invitations, backdrop, drums etc etc.

Shoot for the album is done in Seto Talumuuseum, Värska.

20 page booklet:

Booklet back/cover

Pg 02/03

Pg 04-05

Pg 06-07

Pg 08-09

Pg 10-11

Pg 12-13

Pg 14-15

Pg 16-17

Pg 18-19

This one didn't make it to design but I still love it.

Tour poster:

Album presentation poster made specially for Setomaa, in their native language

Album poster on the cover of local newspaper "Setomaa"

This was my first time designing a car.

A fun project.

Quick ones with phone:

T-shirts made for promoting ZETOD "Lätsi kõrtsu".

Used band's logo and lyrics from the album.

The mark in the middle is a powerful ethnic seto symbol called "püür".

It is used for good luck, healing, protection etc.

After coming up with the idea to use it as a logo, we asked local churchmen if it would be permitted.

He said there were no restrictions and it would also bring a good energetic vibe to the band.

Started working with the guys back in 2012 shooting them in Scotland Yard. I already knew their next album was going to be an acoustic one, so I took the pictures with that in mind.

(You can check 'em out HERE and HERE )

I also designed their singles "Kui sa vaid saad" and made some changes in band's website.

Preparations for the design started in the summer, when I came to an idea to put a messed up acoustic guitar on the cover. With the help of social media, I found an old fucked-up 6-stringer and slowly started to destroy it. Breaking the guitar's neck was a lot harder than I had imagined.

A painful thing to do, also, as I'm treating my own guitar with such a respect.

After messing up the guitar pretty bad, I let it to rot in the rain for the summer.

From time to time, I scratched it with all kinds of tools and decided to grow some flowers out it it.

So this is how we got the cover.

Everything came together during a month of insane work in November.

By then, I had decided I was only going to use the elements I had designed, photographed or

made myself. It was a fun project involving lots of different techniques.

(For example experimenting with ink and coffee, which you can see HERE

and some tablet-raping to create hand written fonts and add details.)

In the end, only things in the design NOT made by me, was a band logo

and 2 or 3 fonts I had to use to make some of the text readable.

What I did: