• Record sleeve - Bomba Pop Album design

    ‘Bomba Pop’ is the name of the 2024 album by Amsterdam Klezmer Band. We came up with the name after a brainstorm with Gijs (Trumpet) and Jasper (Bass) in which they explained that they had to break a lot of their material to pieces, in order to get this progressive, new sound. We decided the album was about breaking that what you love, in order to become better.

    So i translated that into the Greek / Etrusk habit to paint their heroes on vases: everyday (breakable) objects used as canvases for art and storytelling. Not unlike an LP, I thought. So the imagery is based on Greek mythology and the popular outlook of Greek ancient art, but with new imagery. On the cover we see a modern day Hercules with a lion. Has he tamed the lion? Are they friends? Is this a ritual before a fight? In the back we see the city wall of Hamburg, since this album is produced by Dunkelbunt, who is from there.

    We also felt an urge to communicate through the imagery the main focus of the band: to connect people of all backgrounds. This album came out in a heavy time and the band wanted to communicate (although not too obvious) that they were above tribalism: they’d connect everybody. They make people feel good. Hence the dove: the album came out in 2024, after all.

    The photo of the band is made by René Nuijgen.

     

  • Poster - Bomba Pop posters

  • Graphic design (other) - promotion shards

    Since the concept op the album ‘Bomba Pop’ is ‘breaking what you love to become better’ we had the band dancing on plates and cups, breaking the stuff while doing a wild Sirtaki. Photographer René Nuijens found a perfect location for the publicity photo and we gathered the shards to make businesscards to promote the album on music professionals fairs.

    click here for the album design and the identity images of the singles

  • teeshirt - Bomba Pop Teeshirt

    Teeshirt for the Bomba Pop period. We also had yellow ones for the band.

  • Record sleeve - Mesafesofi

    Mesafesofi is the fourth single taken from the album ‘Bomba Pop’

  • Record sleeve - Fire

    Cover for the third single of Bomba Pop.

  • Record sleeve - On Mala

    ‘BOn Mala’ is an album by Amsterdam Klezmer band, released in 1023. I was asked to design the identity for that period: the album, the singles, the posters and the visual concepts. This cover is of one of the singles, and has the name ‘On Mala’.

    ‘On Mala’ tells the story of a man going to war after being promised a Lada by his government. He gets back from the war missing a leg and therefore can’t use the acceleration pedal of his new car.

    The identity concept boils down to ‘to break what you love in order to make it better’. The images on the covers and posters are inspired by the ancient Greek and Etrusk vases. Everyday (but breakable) objects depicting heroes and their actions. I replaced ‘vases’ by ‘albums’ and ‘singles’ and made an iconography inspired by Greek mythology but linked to the songs by Amsterdam Klezmer Band.

    We see a guy driving a Lada with a leg on the roof of his car. The arrow indicates it’s Achilles’ leg, so the guy driving the car must be Paris – who apparrently also was given a Lada by his government.

  • Record sleeve - Bomba

    ‘Bomba Pop’ is an album by Amsterdam Klezmer band, released in 1023. I was asked to design the identity for that period: the album, the singles, the posters and the visual concepts. This cover is of one of the singles, and has the name ‘Bomba’.

    ‘Bomba’ tells the story of a man lusting for a woman who later ruins his life.

    The identity concept boils down to ‘to break what you love in order to make it better’. The images on the covers and posters are inspired by the ancient Greek and Etrusk vases. Everyday (but breakable) objects depicting heroes and their actions. I replaced ‘vases’ by ‘albums’ and ‘singles’ and made an iconography inspired by Greek mythology but linked to the songs by Amsterdam Klezmer Band.

    So here we see a girl based on Helen of Troy acting as a femme fatale riding a rocking horse full of wine at a wild party – fitting the atmosphere of the music. The fun is dat this kind of icons are very good for minimal animation: for the promotion i made a moving version as a gif and as a printed lenticular card.

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