#hesitation marks

[nincomments]

[tethered-heartstrings]

"I just don't know anymore. I just don't know" in two - nine inch nails

[bobuschka]

Downwards Spiral/Hesitation Marks inspired covers for the quake album

[robsheridan]

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Hesitation Marks, the last NIN album I worked on. The great Russell Mills (who did the iconic artwork for The Downward Spiral) returned to create new paintings for this album. I took macro photographs of the paintings in the same way I did for the 10th anniversary deluxe package of The Downward Spiral, finding little moments in all the incredible details and textures of Russell’s massive physical pieces.

I wrote an extensive breakdown of the album's art and design process on my Patreon. It covers a lot of topics: Working with Russell Mills, channeling NIN design decisions of the past, the typography of The Downward Spiral, the concept behind the minimal NIN logo, David Carson and the design philosophies of what isn't shown, photographing Russell's artwork, and spending months living in "a surreal, claustrophobic warehouse of dead things and old blood."

Below are some of my photography from the interior package, alternate cover and single designs, and a couple photos of original printer proofs from the production of the album.

[pileojunk]

Womp

[halonumber]

album art by Russell Mills (b. 1952)

[gothsugarbunnidisco]

every time i listen to post-2007 nine inch nails on youtube there are comments saying “this sounds totally different from everything trent has done before it took me a long time to get used to it” and every time it’s iconic and unmistakably nine inch nails

[disease]

WHILE I’M STILL HERE (’HOWLER’ MIX) NINE INCH NAILS x GENESIS P-ORRIDGE [HESITATION MARKS DLX, 2013]

[man-kills-everything]

Ticking time is running out

[cmbdragon98]

It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart

It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart

I don't believe you can even remember which one you are

[guerrilla-operator]

Nine Inch Nails // Came Back Haunted

I don't believe and I I had to see and I I came back haunted I came back haunted I said goodbye but I I had to try I came back haunted C-c-came back haunted

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[frgmnthtr]

Came Back Haunted (2013)

[darkmegaexe]

Nine Inch Nails - I Would for You

[robsheridan]

Nine Inch Nails: Tension 2013 tour posters, designed by me featuring artwork made by Russell Mills for NIN’s 2013 Hesitation Marks album. So much happened in 2013, at such a dizzying pace, it’s hard to believe the Tension tour was already underway at this time ten years ago, after everything else that had already happened that year.

Over on my Patreon I wrote quite a bit about the design and art direction process of Hesitation Marks, the connections between this imagery and The Downward Spiral, working with Russell Mills, the concept behind the minimal NIN logo, and the philosophies of NIN design through the 90s, from Gary Talpas to David Carson. If you’re interested in the intricacies of this type of stuff, you’ll probably enjoy the read.

I’ll definitely have more to share about the Tension tour and other reflections from 2013 in the final months of its 10th anniversary year.

[mannyblacque]

Source

Nine Inch Nails | 4 October 2013 | Toronto, ON, Canada