Goblyns – Three Sisters album art, tour poster and single cover
Album cover featuring Hypnos
Three Sisters is the second studio album by the Berlin-based band Goblyns. It was recorded at Junxt Berlin, mastered at Songololo Studios and released in June 2025 by Crazysane Records.
The artwork and design was made by Julia Schimautz at DTAN Studio.
Additional information and images about the design process can be found on this Instagram post made by the artist (including a Risograph printed poster of a taller version of the album cover’s illustration, with more objects).
Hypnos by Jean Alessandrini is used for the band’s name. It is accompanied by a version of Quadra 57 (probably Spade from Canada Type) for the titles of album and tracks on the back of the record, as well as the dates on the tour poster.
Another visual was made by Julia Schimautz for the single cover for an earlier digital release of the album’s title track in April 2025 (with the participation of Day Day Contemporary screen printing studio for exposing a screen used for the design). More information about this image can be found on this Instagram post.
Shotgun was used for both the band name and song title on the single cover.
Single cover, featuring Shotgun
4 Comments on “Goblyns – Three Sisters album art, tour poster and single cover”
Merci, Antoine! Very cool to see Hypnos in contemporary use.
You kindly pointed me to an Instagram post from June 2025. In it, Julia Schimautz, the designer, shows some of the design and production process. She als comments on the type:
I’m aware of one – unreleased – academic digitization of Hypnos, made in 2020 by Lucas Liccini as part of his Revivals & Renditions student project at UdK Berlin. Now I’m curious to learn who “Jean & Oliver” are – maybe it’s Jean Alessandrini himself? That would be épatant.
Or maybe it’s Olivier?
I found a 2023 post about Alessandrini and his typefaces on the website of Espace Européen Gutenberg:
Translation:
It is in fact Jean Alessandrini and Olivier Nineuil (from Typofacto) that I was in contact with! Olivier is currently working with Jean on digitizing his typefaces, so I hope they will be available online soon!
I discovered Hypnos through Fonts in Use. I often use this site for inspiration and to find typefaces for my projects, so it feels very special to now be included here.
Thank you very much for chiming in and for confirming my assumption, Julia! In the meantime, I’ve been in touch with Olivier Nineuil myself, but forgot to post an update here. I’m already looking forward to the release of Jean Alessandrini’s digitized typefaces.