For 25 years now, we have had the pleasure to be the band’s main design agency when it comes to most of their audio or video releases. Starting with the original ‘Guitar-case’ box set, to KISS Symphony Alive IV, various compilation and live sets, right...
There are moments of certain projects that are so distinct and pivotal that you simply remember them lifelong. I believe it was in early 2008 on a “lazy” Friday afternoon. It was very quiet around the studio and we were going to close the shop...
Photographer Ross Halfin was hired to oversee the photo editing of this massive book project about his friend and legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. And thanks to him, we were brought on board to design the outer packaging of the various versions of the...
I’ll say this much right at the beginning: It is extremely rare that designers/art directors get to work with an artist on six studio albums in a row. As a side note: We have always been big fans of the album art by the band...
Our relationship with Alice and his management team goes back to the year 2001, when we designed Alice’s ‘Dragontown’ album. Many years have passed until we were contacted in 2023 by Rufus Publications in the UK, inquiring whether we are interested in art directing designing...
At some point in 2021, Universal Music wanted to get more serious with the reissuing of vinyl albums of the KISS catalog. So I was tasked with giving them a refresh, because let’s face it, we’ve all had the music for years, so it is...
A little backstory first. Some of you know that I (Tom) am an avid guitar player and collector. I started playing the electric guitar (after four grueling years learning the classical guitar) at the age of 15. It was the year 1985, and after working...
The mighty Van Halen. While we designed a few smaller projects for the band during their reunion tours with David Lee Roth in 2007/2012, nothing of greater significance came about back then. There were discussions with record company execs who wanted to release album-specific box...