BOBBY BENEDICK ALBUM COVER & SHIRT
BOBBY BENEDICK ALBUM COVER & SHIRT
Background
I created this album cover, vinyl, and t shirt for a couple of good friends who make music under the name Bobby Benedick. I based the album cover design after their most popular song called “Kiddo.” The song is about Luke the older brother leaving for college and the both of them reminiscing over the times they spent together at home. The entire album is representative of their close bond and their love of spending time with one another.
Concept
In the song “Kiddo” there are lyrics such as: Why’d you have to move so far away; I hope back home it’s on par; I find myself dreaming of times in the future when I get up and pack. The composition of the song resemble a phone conversation between the two brothers. I decided to represent that by depicting them talking to one other on tin can walkie talkies in the “desert of memories” in their heads. And the back cover similar to the front shows Luke the older brother running away, from Ryan, going to college. The brothers also make all their music in a closet with a simple mic and computer which is represented by the desk Ryan is sitting at.
Design Decisions
With the two guys being good friends of mine, I know them very well and there are many things I wanted to include like how they brainstorm for their music on ripsticks and record with a sock on the mic. Those things although true and personal, would not be understood by the large audience. So I kept it more simple and photographed them how I exactly wanted and kept the tin can walkie talkie as the focal point of the cover. In the end, the tin can walkie talkies became a large aspect of their brand that I developed.
For the t-shirt I wanted it to be highly related to the album cover itself, I made this composition of the tin can and string being wrapped up in the objects from the cover inferring there was some change since the cover, possibly that Luke came back and they don’t have to talk over the phone anymore. I created a label for a tin can because I wanted a clever way to display and hold the shirt if it were to be sold at concerts and again the tin can became an extension of their brand as a band.