Kremlin Cardboard

Redesign a Vinyl Album Design

In this project I have to redesign and art direct Al Green 12" album cover in whatever way I want. Not only am I redesigning the front cover but also back and spine. 

Since he is a soul music his songs are very vibrant. He makes you want to dance all night. Its very fun, funky kinda music. Therefore I decided to play with the afro of Al Green by adding colourful designs.

How to...

Mail Art

This project consists of using mail art or creating a new network. I am paired with Sophie and Francois and we have been focusing on creating a new network. 

Ideas: 

- Send letters with small typical british objects to different countries to random people

   and ask them to send a little something of their countries back to us. 

- Find an old mail art project and see if the network continues or if it is actually dead. 

- Send cards with a question and ask to answer through sending me an object.

- Put post-its in public bathrooms and let them continue the conversations.

One night we decided to stick post-its on the bathroom wall in a pub where Sophie works. 

The audience weren't really young and men especially took a very long time to co-operate. Some decided to throw all the post-its in the toilet and urine on it. It was very disrespectful. But as the night went on to my surprise they started to co-operate. However next time we should find a more up beat bar.

 - Send post-its with questions to random people in England

- Send cards with a question and ask to answer through sending me an object 

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- The toilet network seemed to be the strongest idea and the one which seemed to have the most response. We now decided instead of post-its to use stickers which would be available for the people to stick wherever they want. We created a website and designed a couple of stickers. These are the stickers I designed.