Taxes: It Never Ends

Album design for Bay Area band, Taxes.

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Standard top down shot of the CD cover directly centered.
Top down photo of the CD open
Top-down shot of the CD open but flipped so the cover and back show

About the Project

It Never Ends, is the first album from Bay Area rock band, Taxes, and our first collabroative project together. Using a beautiful painting from Hickory Mertsching, I pulled inspiration from the artwork to establish the remaining layout. I didn’t quite want to just use the artwork as created, but wanted to add a collage-like element that played with the foliage and skulls in an interesting way that could be carried through the interior and exterior. The type for this album went with a really simple approach, only utilizing system fonts for the minimal amount of text.

The album was featured in Redefine Magazine’s Album Covers of the Year.

Listen to the album on Bandcamp.

Project Credits

Album Concept by Robby Cronholm
Design by Annie Szafranski
Cover Painting by Hickory Mertsching
Printed by DiscMakers

Type Credits

Georgia and Tahoma by Matthew Carter