Album artwork for Stefan Galler’s “War and Peace”

My collaboration with musician Stefan Galler started after I met him at a music showcase; I loved his music right away and started working with him and his band on the release of his first album “War and Peace”. As part of the process, he commissioned the album concept and artwork.

For the cover design I went through several iterations; the first version was a fairly straightforward symbolic representation of the album title, with illustrations of a grenade and a dove. A few drafts in, I moved away from the idea of dualism (black and white, left and right, war and peace, grenade and dove) and decided to go for something slightly more abstract, using star and constellation imagery and only keeping the symbol of the dove.
We used this imagery consistently for the album insert, the website, the artwork for the first album single (“Smile”) and download codes.

The album was self-released in 2012 and pressed on white vinyl.