The creation of the cover was a mixture of the digital with the analogue – for example, the numerals on the cover were designed digitally before being made in a4 plywood and then printed using an old flypress (a manually operated screwpress with a massive ball-weighted handle on top).
To create the large text for the cover, Kendle used vintage wooden headline type bought on eBay, with the credits and additional label copy made using a junior typewriter. “Sore fingers,” is his comment on the latter process.
Finally, the imagery for the cover was originally composed and optimised as digital half tones before being outputted as laser-etched woodblocks that were used for printing. All the elements are then brought together in the final album and singles sleeves.
Dylan Kendle of design studio Tomato has created the art work for the third Nouvelle Vague album.
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