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“Eraserheads Inverted E Album” for Esquire Philippines

Project: Esquire Philippines’ Eraserheads 2-track Album
Tasks: Cover concept and graphic design
Date of publication: September 1, 2014
Client: Erwin Romulo, Editor in Chief of Esquire Philippines

I’m very sure that eeryone who grew up listening to the Eraserheads’ music in the ’90s missed the band sorely since their breakup in 2001. I was among those fans so when our good friend Erwin Romulo, EIC of Esquire Philippines called me up in April of 2014 to let me know that they were coming up with two new tracks as a group again exclusively for Esquire, I was ecstatic. What made it even sweeter was that I was going to design the album sleeve. I’ve had a lot of experience working with the band, as detailed in this ultraelectromagneticjourney post, but this time was different. They all had solo projects now and they had different ideas of what they liked. With that in mind, I holed up in our home office for two days and churned out dozens of album cover studies as quickly as I could. I posted some of those studies on Instagram (click to see the comments) and here they are again below.

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They all ended up liking the discreet inverted E formed by color blocks, with one color to represent each of them.

And I was right about fans missing their music. 30,000 copies of the magazine’s September issue sold out on the first weekend of release.

* You can read more about the #EsquireEheads mania in this Adobo Magazine feature.

( I also answereed a few questions about the project for Rappler in this feature: Behind the Scenes Notes on New Eraserheads Songs.

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“Waltz This Knee” – A Fictional Eraserheads Album

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Project: “Waltz This Knee” – cover design for a fictitious Eraserheads album to accompany a short story by Aldus Santos in Uno Magazine
Tasks: illustration
Date of publication: April 2010
Client: Erwin Romulo, then-Editor of Uno Magazine

Much of my music packaging design career is defined by the work I did in the mid-to-late-’90s for Filipino rock band Eraserheads. (You can read about that ultraelectromagneticjourney here).

When Uno Magazine was planning a “Fiction” issue, Erwin and the editors conjured up the idea that maybe there was a never-released Eraserheads album so he tasked rock journalist Aldus Santos to write the piece, bits of which I typed down in this post in 2010. I was asked to provide the cover illustration and, basing it on the song titles which all sounded rustic and very local to me, I came up with a design that I thought reflected the mood of the album.

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“Ang Nawawalang Soundtrack” Vinyl Record

“Ang Nawawalang Soundtrack” packaging

Project: Music packaging for the film “Ang Nawawala (What Isn’t There)“‘s soundtrack on vinyl — “Ang Nawawalang Soundtrack”
Tasks: Illustrations, graphic design and layout
Released in March 2012
Client: Filmmaker Marie Jamora

In 2011, my good friend Marie Jamora asked me to design her award-winning movie “Ang Nawawala”‘s soundtrack album packaging as well as the liner for Vol.1 of the OST and the screener. It was a great honor for me to work on something that meant a lot to someone dear, and it was also challenging to design for a medium I haven’t explored designing for in the past — vinyl. The movie’s scriptwriter, another good friend Ramon de Veyra, had the brilliant idea of using clear / see-through material for the records which played on the “what isn’t there” concept so the finished product looked even more awesome than I had imagined.

Here it is “in action”:

A video posted by Cynthia Bauzon-Arre (@arncyn) on

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I'm Cynthia Bauzon-Arre, a Filipino watercolor artist & graphic designer. I live in QC with my graphic novelist husband Arnold and our friendly marmalade tabby Abbas. This blog has been chronicling my life, likes, and loves since 2001. [ more ]

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