Funkstörung: Appendix
The final album for Funkstörung features their most subdued cover. Funny, this is how I imagined all the Funkstörung covers to be. Although having since checked them out this is not the case In fact none feature clean vector artwork at all. I guess their music made me think of minimal design and the fact I read most of the other covers were done by The Designers Republic.
While The Designers Republic did many of their covers, this and the previous “The Return to The Acid Planet” were actually done by Munich based The Purple Haze. Who have done other nice work too.
While the cover is a nice and simple minimalist affair the 24 page booklet is what caught my eye. It has a nice sense of humor about it and for German’s thats pretty big :)
Each page is an info graphic related to the duo, many of which appeal to the nerdy statistician all of us. Well all except the “wedding style” photo page. I’m hoping the copy (which I can’t read) pokes fun at the cheesiness of it.
One page depicts the average concert times, a visual representation of the music and another the plugs needed by the band while on the road.
It reminds me of Feltron’s Annual Report of his year.
Here’s a sample of the booklet’s pages.
You can sample some of the tunes from the album on the special mini site for the album here.
henrik:
It’s obviously based upon the graphics that tdr did for the “additional productions” album (it included a graphic identity manual for Funkstörung)
# 28 Nov 07 at 4:54 am
Ash:
Heh Henrik,
Good call. This is an extension of that initial idea focusing on the bands stats rather than than visual identity.
# 28 Nov 07 at 12:58 pm
HK:
Beautiful work.
# 28 Nov 07 at 5:54 pm
Daniel Brown:
Its not Great at all and really its purly a toss from Designer Republic. Can we please set an example and show some great package design. Or pull somthing from a book there is tons of that around and better.
# 29 Nov 07 at 11:41 pm
Ash:
Hey Daniel Browm,
harsh comments. This was submitted to us not “taken out of a book”.
I thought the booklet content was interesting and didn’t know about TDR designed album. (Which I’m buying on the weekend to do a feature on too)
But please email us with some suggestions of good covers. We’re not omnipresent overlords of good design taste. We like to have stuff suggested to us.
# 30 Nov 07 at 8:36 am
renkas:
I don’t dig the designers republic
# 30 Sep 08 at 12:23 am