Underworld: A Hundred Days Off
While Underworlds previous albums displayed Tomato’s trademark style for typography this one sticks in my memory for just being simple and cute. You can hardly say any of Tomato’s work is cute except for this. I can thank my British Typography teacher for introducing me to Tomato’s work.
The photo is by Dirk Van Dooren who produced these for a Tomato exhibition in 2001.
As this looks completely different to all previous and subsequent covers I hypothesis the concept development for this cover went something like this…
JW: Shit we gotta get that artwork for 100days to the printers today!
DVD: FUCK really! i thought we had another week?
JW: Can’t we just throw something together?
DVD: What about a photo? you know the one of the balloon face thing I took last year
JW: Done…. get the work experience kid to email it. Now lets go to the pub.
David Balogh:
Ha nice! This cover wasn’t so much of a departure from Underworld’s previous album, Beaucoup Fish. The photography quite similar (same photographer? Never researched that). The soft grayscale certainly had an interesting impact, and with 20/20 hind vision they always played back and forth between color/grayscale. “Oblivion…” plays on this again with the stark b&w type like Dubnobass… but the abstract color imagery was a nice contrast inside. Back to the 100 Days series, color was introduced in the singles. Either way, I love em all!
# 01 Apr 08 at 6:53 am