Urban Zotel – Concrete Jungle album art and “Bright Lights & Flying Cars” music video
The cover for the album Concrete Jungle is inspired by movie posters from the 1940s to the 1960s, especially film noir posters as the concept behind the album is that it acts as a soundtrack for a non-existent movie.
The main typefaces are Filmotype LaCrosse and Railroad Gothic. Together, they create a contrast between elegant script shapes with a long, mysterious shadow stretching far beyond the strong 3D uppercase block of “Jungle”, which gives the whole composition a solid structure. The artist’s name, written in blue, uses the Scale typeface, as does “stereo”, which is separated into circles to add a playful sense of movement and to separate the information more clearly.
The official video to “Bright Lights & Flying Cars” uses Railroad Gothic and Scale, both of which suit a video inspired by mid-century movie intros such as It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Pink Panther, both created by Saul Bass in 1963.
