.love and hatred can exist side by side

I’ve been interested in music for as long as I can remember. I couldn’t live without it, in some form or another, and when my graphic skills fail me, and I don’t feel like writing, I can always fall back on popping out a song or two.

For a few months, I’ve been working on concepts for my first album’s cover. I have a trilogy, each comprising of about seven songs, the first being “Love and Hatred Can Exist Side by Side.” The titles namesake was borrowed from the wonderful quote by Scott Westerfeld;

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

So here it is, in its half finished glory. I’m unsure as whether to add text or not because one, I love minimal and two, I’m rather pants at the typography thing. But I’m rather happy with this design. It’s the descendant of a long line of hair pulling and photo taking. After deciding on abolishing the ol’ snapshots, I landed on this photo montage which conveys the point, even if it does mean that once again my love of playing cards and marble figures wins out.

So there you have it. The central design underwent a lot of changes, until it finally arrived at this. Here’s just a quick example of how it started off life in this test panel;