The Architect: Interview With Brent Rollins | The Rap Up.
If you’ve bought any good hip hop albums in the last 15 years, chances are you have some work by Brent Rollins sitting in your collection right now. Rollins is the design mastermind behind classic album covers by the likes of Gang Starr, Blackalicious and Black Star. His most recent work was the album packaging for Freeway & Jake One’s Stimulus Package LP.
This project has been in the works for a very long time. We are proud to present the release of DaVinci’s album The Day the Turf Stood Still. This release has been a big family effort with all of the SWTBRDS and Majorminor crews working in unison. This was a great project for Mm. It saw us dabble in print, web and video. We also expanded to 4 people (!) when we brought on Alex Jieh of SWTBRDS to handle audio and video production.
You can download the album and check out some great video work here.
Shouts to Mike Gilbert on the illustration. Thanks to the whole SWTBRDS crew!
Because any reason to design something cool to send out to your closest friends and family is exciting (like baby announcements, invitations, hell, even a new haircut) we were thrilled to share the news of our new place of residence in San Francisco—in the Sunset District.
We had a handful of boxes that fell apart during our move and we caught ourselves almost dumping them in the recycling bin when we realized—Oh! We can use this for our moving announcement. So we did. Crate and Barrel boxes, moving boxes, all sorts of boxes. So each piece has its own character.
From the Richmond, we were Sunset Bound. The card pays homage to The Sunset, specifically where we live, just off 9th and Judah, where we can conveniently catch the N-Judah line, thus the blue-circle N. We had a local alterations shop sew the printed piece onto the scrap cardboard—mimicking the MUNI tracks and transit lines. And it gave it that extra tactile feel. We had fun working on this piece.
