In honor of the release of the newest TWRP EP, Friends of the Blues, I recreated the album art in Minecraft. I love Lazerhorse's art and this new cover is so gorgeous.
Good afternoon! The pre-orders for some of the merch I got to design for my favorite band, TWRP, are live! There’s a lovely die-cut holographic sticker, and a cute limited-palette design available both on a poster and a tee!
You can see them in the shop and pre-order them here! They’re supposed to roll out later on in the winter.
I had a really wonderful time designing these and taking notes from Lazerhorse. I hope I can work with him and the band again sometime!
okay so i didn’t know arthur doyle (lazerhorse) was on leighton and brian’s podcast this past fall, but y’all after listening, i’m happy to announce he’s finally free from twrp’s evil basement!!! that makes me so fucking happy!!!!
he was trapped for 4 years, 8 months, 24 days.
damn twrp, you’re fucked up. 😂😂😂
i hope you got that sandwich you deserved too arthur!
Opinion on Return to Wherever? I've got opinions for sure. I'll try to keep it short.
Solid album. I'd recommend it as a good first for new listeners. Definitely one of my top favourite albums of TWRP's
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I also feel like Return to Wherever was a turning point for TWRP's sound overall. It feels much brighter in comparison to earlier works. Of course they started the change back with Ladyworld and continued it in Together Through Time, but for me they really solidified that new feeling they were putting into their music. Note: I believe Doctor Sung mentioned on stream that RtW was written around the time they relocated to Los Angeles, and it had an effect on their music writing at the time. I'll try to check the vods to cite this, because I don't want to say that he said something without source (thats a lot of hour to go through, so it may be a while, but I did check the years they announced they were moving and it does match up)
I'd also like to talk about the cover art.
Lazerhorse definitely does a good job at emulating styles from the different artists he takes inspiration from, and Hiroshi Nagai is no exception. The beach is lovely, the clouds are fluffy, and the horizon calls back to Ladyworld with those otherworldly crystals. Then there is the rendering style of the boys themselves. It reminds me of that one retro airline poster that Daft Punk used.
Theres also the name stripe that holds the album name, band name, and track list. Its the perfect shade of pink and no one can tell me otherwise. It goes very well with the blue used for the sky and water, and was a good choice to make the text stand out from the artwork. Also, the vinyl release with the pink and blue colouration to match was a great choice as well.
"Hey this is kinda neat. A little over a year ago, these were the initial brainstorm sketches that @lazerhorse did for Ladyworld's album art"
-via TWRP Instagram January 3rd, 2018
I forgot about these and figured it was worth sharing since I know a lot of people love the Ladyworld album design, as do I (glances at album art poster).
Items will be restocked in the near future!
Vertical Poster
David Liu (Illustration), Michael Doig (Colourist) & Lazerhorse (Graphic Design)
Character T-shirt
David Liu (Illustration) Michael Doig (Colourist) & Lazerhorse (Graphic Design)
Horizontal Poster
India Swift (Illustration), Michael Doig (Colourist) & Lazerhorse (Graphic Design)
Logo T-shirt
India Swift (Graphic Design), Noitibmar (Logo Design) & Elle Power (Logo Design)
Stickers
India Swift (Illustration)
Pins
India Swift (Illustration) & Elle Power (Illustration)
30+ hours later, I have a full cross stich pattern for the twrp logo in the Hit (curse you lazerhorse for your incredible art skills). Tomorrow I’ll go look at threads in person so I can fix the colors (the grays should be light blues but my computer monitor wasn’t cooperating). I might stick it up online if anyone else wants it? It’s 6 pages and 9000 stitches so this’ll take a hot minute to stitch lol