One on Twoism - Volume 3 [Artwork Submission]

[ArtOfTheGroove]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

[ArtOfTheGroove]

SarinSundays font/lettering is definitely the best of the lot. I like the grainy element to his images too, but some of the other images could look lovely merged with his lettering perhaps? I dunno...

Here's SarinSunday's font on Earthbound's image:




SarinSunday's font on one of my images:




Also, I went back and thought that SarinSunday's topgraphic map cover is still really cool:

[Fredd-E]

Love this one. The font matches the image perfectly.

[bleak.]

Love this one. The font matches the image perfectly.

beautiful work yet again

[Frank]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

Nice post. The hard thing is tho, to create a new graphical style for still boc-esque music. I think we lay the connection between this music and this graphical style so easily that it's the first thing that pops in your mind when you start working on some artwork.

But i like the idea, maybe i'll use it if i give it a try.

[sarinsunday]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

[Earthbound]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

Word Sarin, WORD!

[Earthbound]

SarinSundays font/lettering is definitely the best of the lot. I like the grainy element to his images too, but some of the other images could look lovely merged with his lettering perhaps? I dunno...

Here's SarinSunday's font on Earthbound's image:

Ooh, that's awesome! This font looks indeed a lot better on this pic. What font did you use, and where can I find it? I do have a few more plane / airport pics which I took at the same evening. So I will put some back and inlays on later if you can give me the right fonts, and tell me where to get it . Thanks!

[saturdayindex]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

Yup, couldn't agree more. This goes hand in hand with the "raped and pillaged" topic, too.

[Frank]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

It's not that boc can call it their own. It's the other way around. Everyone connects those style of images to boc (so do I), so maybe it's cool to try something else for OOT.

[sarinsunday]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

It's not that boc can call it their own. It's the other way around. Everyone connects those style of images to boc (so do I), so maybe it's cool to try something else for OOT.

There is no connection to boc other the the title "Twoism." In call it "One On Twoism" you are going to always directly think oh it something that has to do with boards of canada. I think moving away from a vintage nostalgic feel wouldn't do justice to the music within and further I think we need to stop thinking "it looks" or "it sounds to much like BOC."

I think people should design what they feel represents the music and whatever it ends up looking like, no matter what it always looks like something that has already been done.

I have no problem with moving away from a dirty old, xprocessed photo that is super blurry 8mm style but i just think to me that represents what a lot of us produce.

[Synthetrix]

Here is the front of one of my concepts.




Back and a few more concepts later.

I don't need to see any more. That is the cover. Very nice!

[Earthbound]

I don't really expect any of my cover ideas to actually be used, as I don't profess to be a great graphics designer. I'm just trying to put forth a few alternatives to hopefully get the juices flowing with some of the better designers on this forum.

Specifically, I was trying to see if we could move things away from the stereotypical BOC influences such as the green or blue tinted covers - washed out, dirty or water stained images and fonts - pictures of children or themes related to them, etc.

Don't get me wrong, there have been many lovely designs posted... but BOC has "been there, done that" a long time ago. I have to agree with Aesthetics' original opinion that this compilation should begin to move away from the heavy BOC influences. I realize that this is a BOC oriented forum, and I know how much we all love their work or we wouldn't be here (well, except for ZX Pilot maybe!)

I have faith that the talent on this forum can produce a compilation that stands on its own merit, rather than just being a BOC tribute. Sure, within the Twosim community we all love a good BOC homage... particularly as it has been so many years since we've had any new BOC material to sink our teeth into.

But rather than have Twoism preaching to the choir I would love to see the community assert itself as a serious pool of talent, with its own individual style and sound. I know that outside of our fairly happy and peaceful environment Twoism is often perceived as a group of nerdy BOC fanboys - for example, over on WATMM this appears to be the case. It would be good to break out of that stereotype.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway...

I have a few things to say. I really feel that the "boc look" is nothing that boc can call there own. Vintage, X-processed, blurred images have been around forever and to say that boc coined that style is not a just call.

Besides the fast the the majority of the producers who visit this forum(including me especially) draw much inspiration from Boards of canada. I do not think this is a bad thing. All artwork, music pretty much everything that exists is the product of inspiration from whatever source the person decides to really hone in on.

To be completely honest. Our music and boc's music is the same thing. Although they started before most of us.

I think when I make visuals for my music or the music in the genres I design for that the end product isn't "it looks like a boc cover" its more like "this artwork represents the music it was created for and based on."

I find it extremely difficult to deal with the "its someone else's look" being a designer by profession and as a huge part of my life I have seen a lot of stuff, great, bad and super rips. All in all I do not think BOC owns the vintage look. It like T-Moblie trying to copyright/buy the color Magenta. It makes me laugh.

The name of this place is Twoism, imo 2nd best boc album. To create anything else to represent this place and the music created by the people who come here would be rather off-topic.

Just my two cents.

It's not that boc can call it their own. It's the other way around. Everyone connects those style of images to boc (so do I), so maybe it's cool to try something else for OOT.

There is no connection to boc other the the title "Twoism." In call it "One On Twoism" you are going to always directly think oh it something that has to do with boards of canada. I think moving away from a vintage nostalgic feel wouldn't do justice to the music within and further I think we need to stop thinking "it looks" or "it sounds to much like BOC."

I think people should design what they feel represents the music and whatever it ends up looking like, no matter what it always looks like something that has already been done.

I have no problem with moving away from a dirty old, xprocessed photo that is super blurry 8mm style but i just think to me that represents what a lot of us produce.

And again: WORD!
Totally agree with you Sarin.

[Frank]

There is no connection to boc other the the title "Twoism." In call it "One On Twoism" you are going to always directly think oh it something that has to do with boards of canada. I think moving away from a vintage nostalgic feel wouldn't do justice to the music within and further I think we need to stop thinking "it looks" or "it sounds to much like BOC."

I think people should design what they feel represents the music and whatever it ends up looking like, no matter what it always looks like something that has already been done.

I have no problem with moving away from a dirty old, xprocessed photo that is super blurry 8mm style but i just think to me that represents what a lot of us produce.

I agree with you, like i said "so do I". But i also said it might be cool to try something different. We/you/me/someone could give it a shot right? Who knows where we'd end up.

[rdy2bz]

My nomination:

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[Earthbound]

My nomination:

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back

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I like it a lot!
But the horizon looks a bit crooked.
You should fix it, and submit it again.

[rdy2bz]

I did this intentionally to soften the effect that the picture splits into two parts, the sky and the rest.
But I can adjust it when requested.

This looks kinda so

[saturdayindex]

I did this intentionally to soften the effect that the picture splits into two parts, the sky and the rest.
But I can adjust it when requested.

This looks kinda so

the font positioning looks a little off, also the effects on the font don't seem to work. nice picture though.

[mechanismj]

Yeah, I think the picture is fantastic. It has the right vibe... I would assume... being winter and all.

[saturdayindex]

Thank manweaselbeast for the picture.