Skipinnish - Wester Ocean - Album Artwork

Here's the latest album from Skipinnish, the ceilidh magnates of the west. Featuring a drawing of a boat out of Mull called the aquila, this cover was a lot of fun. I like boats and getting to draw a beautiful wooden number such as OB•99 was a real pleasure. I only had one very small, low resolution photo of the boat so getting the drawing correct was quite a challenge. Thankfully I was helped by the naval architects in the office and learnt a fair bit about wooden boats in the process.Anyone who knows Skippinish and their previous releases will know that this cover design is a fairly major departure from what they have produced in the past. This carries over to the music on the album to which has a far more contemporary feel.In the bands own words... "The album is a wild blend of old and new Skipinnish, reflecting the traditional style set by the band's early records with the high-energy addition of younger members."I also designed the bands new logo. Based on their already very prevalent and well distributed previous logo. The ability for the band to cary on it's well established branding was high on the agenda. The band also own and run tourist boats, two ceilidh houses and countless other enterprises so evolution not revolution was the name of the game on this front. This new typeface based on the original has been tweaked and visually balanced to carry over the previous forms but with added style and a touch more visual excitement with the swoopy descender on the K.The band have done really well with the first single off the album going to number one on the itunes, world chart, the cover of which I also designed. More power to them, they certainly work very hard and they deserve all the success that comes their way, proper grafters like.http://www.skipinnish.com/