Leif Müller fulfills a long-held wish with Between Us: to create an album entirely detached from club conventions. The record moves between love, longing, reverie, and inner calm. Its atmosphere is melancholic yet never dark—inviting listeners to drift, reflect, and let go. Rather than dictating emotions, Between Us opens a space for each listener to reconnect with their own.

Designed by Bareis + Nicolaus, the artwork features Romie Italic, designed by Margot Lévêque and available at Claude Type, paired with what looks like Peace by Kia Tasbihgou.

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Trilogy was founded by two sisters from New Zealand who discovered the amazing skin loving benefits of rosehip oil, and took it to the world. Besides the signature rosehip oil, the brand now features a wide range of skincare products that all follow the same conscious approach, to minimize the impact on earth. Trilogy is Toitū carbon neutral certified, NATRUE and BioGro certified natural and organic. They do not test on animals and use PEFC certified cartons and recyclable or PCR materials wherever possible.

The logotype uses Grand Slang (Nikolas Type). In 2022, Trilogy commissioned Nikolas Type to create a custom version of Grand Slang’s lowercase g which is in use since then.

The branding is completed by Attila Sans (Kometa) Ogg Text (Sharp Type) and National 2 Compressed (Klim Type Foundry).

This is the story of a label that becomes six. The same label idea that responds to six variations – and which allows for many more, always different and always recognizable.

But we don't end there, the Inspira design goes further: this is the story of a design that emphasizes the idea that wine is culture: Inspira plays with the metaphor that wine is poetry. For this reason, it dresses its wines with verses by six key authors of Catalan literature who have expressly lent their poems to dress these Certificate of Origin Terra Alta wines.

Each bottle of the collection provides information about its author, as well as a bibliographic recommendation so that the reader can stretch the thread and extend the link with the culture beyond the wine itself.

With the creation of different label models for the same wine, we motivate the collector aspect of the consumer. With the elegance that comes from subtlety, by making different models available we propose to pair a wine with different texts and live the experience of how wine and writing take on new nuances and sensations, as they accompany each other.

Finally, with this versatile label, we commend the passion for poetry through wine. For this reason, each text is accompanied by a bibliographical recommendation and a pinch about its author.

Cassette packaging

Andrew Weathers’ AW Solo Album was issued in a hand-numbered edition of 100. C50 imprinted cassettes were assembled and dubbed in real time at home by William Csorba. Graphic design and creative direction by Matthew Boteilho. Cover photo by Lindsey Milller. Printed locally in Houston, TX with dry white ink using a Kodak NexPress onto Mohawk Keaykolour Steel. Recorded in Littlefield at Wind Tide by Andrew Weathers. Mixed by Seth Chrisman at Cloud Nest in Trivoli, NY.

Artwork text is set in Ogg Display, Ogg Text, and Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type. Catalog number BHR010, released by Blue Hole Recordings on August 14, 2020.

Blue Hole Recs’ packaging was developed by Matthew Boteilho and William Csorba after more than a decade of buying and listening to cassettes from the global DIY experimental community. The c-card inserts are an obi strip- and book spine-influenced (see: the early 70s paperback Foxfire series) element that uniformly relate across the whole discography by utilizing the same type treatment, print method, and paper lines.

Using commercial vendors with digital machines allows quantities to be kept low while opening up the ability to experiment with the 5th color unit. Loose download cards commonly found inside modern physical media were done away with the help of variable data so that unique codes could be printed direct to the art.

While adhering to a no templates, no mockups mentality—Blue Hole Recs instead places emphasis on making sure that it is the creators and makers themselves who are given the space to spec out the process from start to finish.

Cassette packaging

Cassette packaging

Shell imprinting

Digital artwork

Cassette packaging

Joseph Allred’s Cub Creek Blues issued in a hand numbered edition of 100. C34 cassettes dubbed at home, in real time on a Tascam 202 MKIII. Graphic design by Matthew Boteilho. Cover collage by Joseph Allred. Mastered by Micheal Potter. Artwork text is set in Grand Slang by Nikolas Type paired with Ogg Display, Ogg Text, and Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type. Catalog number BHR015, released by Blue Hole Recordings on March 15, 2020.

Blue Hole Recs’ packaging was developed by Matthew Boteilho and William Csorba after more than a decade of buying and listening to cassettes from the global DIY experimental community. The c-card inserts are an obi strip- and book spine-influenced (see: the early 70s paperback Foxfire series) element that uniformly relate across the whole discography by utilizing the same type treatment, print method, and paper lines.

Using commercial vendors with digital machines allows quantities to be kept low while opening up the ability to experiment with the 5th color unit. Loose download cards commonly found inside modern physical media were done away with the help of variable data so that unique codes could be printed direct to the art.

While adhering to a no templates, no mockups mentality—Blue Hole Recs instead places emphasis on making sure that it is the creators and makers themselves who are given the space to spec out the process from start to finish.

Cassette packaging

Cassette packaging

Shell imprinting

Digital artwork

Poster for a party by Room for Rebellion in association with the London Irish Abortion Rights Campaign feat. Eclair Fifi, Anu + Lora. Organized to raise funds for the Abortion Support Network who help women in Ireland and Northern Ireland access safe abortion care in mainland UK.