Album Art With Ben Abrahamson

In the before times, I was asked by Ben Abrahamson to bring his vision for a snarky possum to life. Ben’s music is classical flamenco in style, and his influences are vast. After meeting with Ben to learn a little bit more about what he was looking for, hearing that his vision for this project was “perfectly imperfect”, I knew exactly how to visually present Neolithic in a way that complimented Ben’s goals.

After doing a bit of research about possum stance, and general behavior, Ben and I decided on a profile view for the front cover, where his possum buddy would be curious about the imposing word on the cover. After fine tuning the color selection just a bit, Ben approved the final album cover, pictured below. This possum is curious, yet apprehensive of those imposing letters.

A curious looking possum stands with surprise looking up at the word "NEOLITHIC" in a commanding font. Some of the letters in the word have been placed at an angle, to convey that perfection isn't it. — To fulfill Ben’s goal with Neolithic, we created a curious possum and some demanding lettering- slightly mis-aligned.

A pleasing arrangement of thick bold fonts, and delicate serf fonts displaying the musician's name and the album tracks. A delightful confused possum is in the bottom right corner — In possibly my favorite arrangement of font, size and detail, the back of Ben Abrahamson’s album includes another custom possum.

Choosing a complimentary font to the bold, commanding font used for the front cover’s album name was a lot of fun! This combination of serif and sans serif font, and playfulness in font sizing is echoed in the face of the possum on the back cover. The expression of this possum is meant to bring the listener in, as if to welcome them to the exclusive life of the possum.