Irrealis: The latest in a series of collaborations with pianist Matthew Bourne. Created straight on the press, the composition of the artwork was improvised from letterpress woodblocks in reflection of Matt’s music.

From the composition, a number of prints and rubbings were taken to make the album and single artwork.

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Album artwork featuring a hand-printed letterpress design, inspired by the famous red canopy and front doors of perhaps the most iconic jazz club in the world.

Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard features international saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel alongisde: Gerald Clayton (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass) and Obed Calvaire (drums).

For Edition Records (2024)

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“Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. But these sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, reworked, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered.

This forces us to explore those sounds thoroughly and inventively. And it maintains our focus on celebrating what’s particular about that musician and the sound they make.”

– from Nightports’ manifesto

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Forest of Your Problems: Album artwork and campaign design for our favourite forest folk, Snapped Ankles — featuring letterpress woodtype prints by Oli Bentley from specially cut woodtype, and wet plate collodion photography photography of Kasia Wozniak.

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Letterpress album artwork for one of the defining jazz/crossover bands of the 21st century, making its debut in a new iteration.

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Packaging and Identity Design for Unusual Ingredients — a multi-sensory project bringing to life the relationships between sound and flavour.

Each track is accompanied by corresponding ingredients to be eaten whilst listening – the foods’ flavours, textures, and sounds interacting with, and even being altered by, the music itself.  This very special box includes multiple portions of the ingredients, packaged in glass test tubes, petri dishes, and encased in specially-cut foam packaging.

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The 10th release by New York jazz guitarist Gilad Heselmann, Far Star was released on Edition Records. One of the world’s leading jazz guitarists, Gilad Hekselman is an Israeli-born jazz guitarist, now living in US. He has performed with Anat Cohen, Mark Turner, Dayna Stephens, Aaron Parks, Jeff Ballard, John Scofield, Ari Hoenig, Chris Potter and Joey Alexander.

Artwork created from a pair of original letterpress prints by Oli Bentley on the People Powered Press.

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