A Rubbish Album
Scope
Art Direction
Type Design
Packaging Design
In 2018, Finnish pop band Vasas flora och fauna rewrote and re-recorded 11 songs from their first two albums, translating the lyrics from Swedish into German as an attempt to break into the German market.
A Rubbish Album
In 2018, Finnish pop band Vasas flora och fauna rewrote and re-recorded 11 songs from their first two albums, translating the lyrics from Swedish into German as an attempt to break into the German market.
Scope
Art Direction
Type Design
Packaging Design
Awards
Type Directors Club Tokyo, Merit
European Design Awards, Silver
Strandgut is the German word for jetsam, the discarded materials cast overboard from a vessel to lighten its load at sea. It also references the tracks from previous albums that have washed up on this new recording.
Jetsam is a naturally ephemeral product made up from hundreds of different discarded materials. The album name, Strandgut, is a metaphor for the songs floating across the Baltic sea to finally wash up on the shores of Germany.
The gatefold sleeve of Strandgut’s vinyl LP features portraits of all three band members sculpted from jetsam washed ashore on a nearby beach. They are complemented by a custom seaweed-inspired typeface made from hand-drawn calligraphic strokes, designed to give the lettering a feeling of impermanence.
The sculptures are made from marine debris found on the beach, referring to the album’s title Strandgut.