Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore album art and merchandise
Back cover
People Who Aren’t There Anymore is the new studio album by Future Islands, released on 4AD today. It was named after a painting by Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo. A different painting of hers, Fading Memory of a Face, is featured on the front cover.
The creative direction and album design is by Nolen Štrāls, who’s been working with the Baltimore-based band for years. For the band name, he started with caps from Philipp Neumeyer’s Rainer and connected the letters of the two words in a way that evokes the rippled surface of the sea surrounding the nominal Islands.
The title on the back cover is set in Regrets. One’s tempted to assume that Ohno’s 2023 release was chosen for its name – which happens to be a perfect match for the album’s title. But Štrāls used Regrets before, for the video to Future Islands’ “Deep In The Night”. The typewriter font used for the track names and the lyrics is Klim’s Pitch.
Front cover with inner sleeve and vinyl record
Compact disc
Promotional banner
Regrets with hyper-extended initials that form an interlinear ligature for the “Dancing” sweatshirt
A variant of the band logo, with the two words not aligned to each other
The “Figures” shirt features Rainer’s Slanted style.
