incomplete
2020
Vinyl Record Sleeves
2020
Vinyl Record Sleeves
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s series incomplete was released in July 2020. Created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the series acts as documentation of “the sensations [he has] been feeling... in these times when things are not “normal.”
My design for the series’ corresponding vinyl record sleeves centres around a questioning of the limited lens through which we are able to connect and empathise with events occurring around the world.
My intention for the packaging is for it to not be opened; for the contents to be physically existent from the outside but never be seen, the moment of its visual non-existence coming to an end the moment it is opened. The packaging design embodies the could-have-beens and might-have-beens of this year, holding as much weight on the ephemeral as the physical.
The cover designs present as distorted reproductions of captured moments in time, moments often displaced from far away from the recipient of the object. As each owner of the run of 200 record sets receives two unique images, they become the holders of these moments, irrespective of their familiarity with their subject matter.
My design for the series’ corresponding vinyl record sleeves centres around a questioning of the limited lens through which we are able to connect and empathise with events occurring around the world.
My intention for the packaging is for it to not be opened; for the contents to be physically existent from the outside but never be seen, the moment of its visual non-existence coming to an end the moment it is opened. The packaging design embodies the could-have-beens and might-have-beens of this year, holding as much weight on the ephemeral as the physical.
The cover designs present as distorted reproductions of captured moments in time, moments often displaced from far away from the recipient of the object. As each owner of the run of 200 record sets receives two unique images, they become the holders of these moments, irrespective of their familiarity with their subject matter.
