original cover design
- Sleeve 040/100: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (2009)
- Studio Album by Band of Skulls
- Label: Shangri-La Music
- Genre: Hard Rock
- Original Cover: Design And Art Direction – Vincent Toi/Phi Group Inc. / Paintings – Emma Richardson / Artwork Photography – John Ross
This post is part of the 100 Sleeves: One hundred Album Covers Re-Designed project, a personal challenge I created for myself at the end of 2020. The goal is to create 100 album covers, a new one every week, inspired by the music I’m enjoying at the moment.
I listened to Band of Skulls for the first time around 2016, because a friend of mine showed them to me. “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey” is the album I got hooked on back then and the one I came back to now, unknowingly that they were releasing a new album just this week (“Marsden & Richardson“). I found this last part a really nice surprise as now I have new music to listen to, and this was not a band I was following the track of.
For my design, I took inspiration from the album title, some of the lyrics, and the fact that [almost] all of Band of Skulls album covers are symmetric designs.
Band of Skulls studio album covers from 2009 to 2019
In a double-axis symmetry, I drew ribcages as the central element and surround them with bees, honeycomb patterns, doll eyes, rag dolls, lips, diamonds, pearls, skulls, lollipops, wishbones, and stars.
Album Cover Redesign by franzmori. This is fan art, no copyright infringement intended.
animated GIF with the elements and color exploration
I shared a work-in-progress image with my Ko-fi supporters and they suggested I made the final version available as a download. I gotta say it looks really good.
