Graphic Design: Bedow produce a timeless identity for Canadian label

Date
28 August 2013

When you’re launching a brand new vinyl-only record label producing releases in limited runs of only 300, it’s pretty important that you get the design of your new music empire nailed from the start – it’s easy to get lost on record store shelves after all. Maintaining some kind of visual consistency for at least the first few releases is a simple and incredibly effective way of bolstering a label’s identity in the early days. It’s worked wonders for Sacred Bones whose early releases for bands like Zola Jesus and Psychic Ills all conformed to a strict template.

When More Than Human – a Canadian record label specialising in electronic music – needed branding they contacted savvy Swedes Bedow to produce their monogram, logotype, stationery and a timeless template for all of their releases. The results speak for themselves and are a magnificent example of niche labels taking control of their visual output in the same considered way they treat the audio.

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Bedow: More Than Human identity

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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