So I can finally unveil my sleeve design for secret 7. Unfortunatly I couldn’t make it to the sale of the sleeves on saturday but I hear it was a great success. The addition of a photo booth this year means that you can see who bought each sleeve on their Facebook page so I could have a nosey at who bought mine. All the artists names are now up on the website alongside the artwork and a few pieces that didn’t sell on saturday are still available on ebay until sunday.
I designed a sleeve for Elbows - Grounds for divorce taking elements of the lyrics and and transferring it into tattoo designs which I handout and printed using lino. It’s not the sort of illustration I’ve done before but I really enjoyed researching tattoo designs and making something unlike anything I’ve done before!
So this weekend I got some very exciting news! My artwork has been picked to make up 1 of the 700 vinyl covers in the secret 7 exhibition. I genuinely did not think I would have been picked but it just goes to show that things like this are worth entering. I heard that over 3000 people submitted designs which is incredible and my work will be exhibited amongst the work of Harland Miller, Paul Smith and Karl Pilkington of all people!
This is probably the most exciting thing to ever happen to me and I can’t stop grinning. Obviously I can’t show you my design until after record store day but all 700 sleeves are available to view here along with all the contributors.
If you are in London on 12-13th do go have a nose at the exhibition and on record store day (19th April) all the vinyls are available to buy. Do go and check it out as the range of work is incredible and all proceed go to War Child.
If you haven’t heard of this then you’re missing out! I saw this last year but it was too late to submit so am taking full advantage this year and hope to submit a few designs.
Secret 7” is an annual event where 7 tracks are chosen and each one is pressed onto 100 vinyls. Creatives are then invited to create artwork for the tracks resulting in 700 one of a kind sleeves. The creatives are made up of well known artists and designers through to those just starting out who submit on the Secret 7 website. The 700 sleeves are exhibited and then sold for £45 each, with all proceeds going to War Child, but you don’t know which track you have or who designed the sleeve until you have paid and get an authentication slip.
Not only is it a really great creative challenge but it’s a really exciting opportunity if your artwork is chosen to exhibit amongst some famous faces. It’s all for a good cause and you could end up with an original, one of kind by someone famous!
The tracks this year are :
Black Sabbath - Age of Reason
Elbow - Grounds for divorce
Jake Bugg - Strange Creatures
Lorde - Team
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
Roxy Music - Virginia Plains
T.Rex - Get it on
The deadline is the 17th February, so get going! and there are more details here : http://secret-7.com
L x
