Mossgrain

Sleeves, labels and a catalogue system for a small vinyl label of ambient music and field recordings.

Client: Mossgrain Records
Role: Identity, sleeve design
Year: 2024
Location: Glasgow
Camera: Fujifilm GFX 100S, 63 mm

A stack of record sleeves with printed waveforms on moss-green and grey paper. — 01/05The first twelve sleeves, on green and grey stock.

A record turning on a wooden turntable under warm lamp light. — 02/05Test pressing on the turntable.

Printed record labels and a catalogue type specimen on cotton paper. — 03/05Centre labels and the catalogue specimen.

A small listening room with two speakers, a rug and an armchair. — 04/05The listening room at the label.

A record shop shelf with the label's sleeves in a row. — 05/05In the shop, filed under M.

Notes

Brief

Mossgrain releases about twelve records a year: ambient music and field recordings from Scotland. Each sleeve had been designed from scratch, so the label was hard to recognise in a shop.

Work

We made a system instead of single covers. Every sleeve carries a waveform drawn from the record’s first minute, printed in one colour on uncoated stock. The catalogue number and the place of the recording sit on the spine. Two paper colours mark the two series.

Sleeve and label system
Catalogue numbering and spine design
Paper and print specification

Result

Twenty-four releases use the system so far. The printer keeps both paper stocks in store.

Services: Identity, Packaging, Print