I love this album but I'm not a fan of the original artwork for the cover. I wanted to design something more iconic. I felt it was important to base the design off a picture of the band so that's where I started. As I played with effects and color palettes an idea started to form about what direction to go in. I wanted it to look as if you were sitting on the beach after being out all night partying and their image appears in the dawn sky as if a huge, old TV turned on and there was a tenuous connection.
Here is the image of the photograph I used to start with:
Here's my layers I worked with in Photoshop:
And this is the original album cover:
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