Here’s the latest release from the Culprit label – Lee Curtiss with Candy. The brief called for something a little crass, a little class, and with a vintage LA patina. The photo of Mr. Curtiss came from Terence Patrick, a massively talented LA photographer and Culprit co-conspirator. Definitely have a look through his impressive body of work.
The initial inspiration for type design came from advertisements from a 1974 smut rag. I randomly populated the ads with Lee’s name, the track title, and a repeated lyric (“what we talk about”).
These elements ended up lending more ‘ambiance’ than actual ‘information’, but served as great inspiration. The washed out colors and grainy textures of the final image came from pictorials in the same smut rag the ads came from.