SuiSuisse StudioPaul Gray / Design & art direction
All work_

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Treacherous Orchestra

Music / Packaging

Restored close view of the original Treacherous Orchestra Origins CD packaging and circular artwork.
Treacherous Orchestra / Origins / Original packaging, restored for display.

The project_

An O assembled from the land and the sea.

The brief_

CD packaging for Origins, an album by Treacherous Orchestra. I had a free hand. Several concepts were worked through in notebooks and discussed before this one was chosen.

The observation_

The music has Highland roots, traditional instruments and a very modern energy. Scottish folk, but not tartan-twee. The packaging needed to come from that landscape and carry something of its folklore.

The application_

The central symbol is an O for Origins, made from found natural materials: twigs, feathers, antlers, leaves, seaweed and a gannet’s head. Materials from the land and the sea. The figure adds a reference to an older, more mysterious Scotland.

Restored cutout of the original O for Origins, built from twigs, leaves, antlers and feathers.
The O / Materials gathered from the land and the sea. Detail restored for display.
Restored original dark portrait with a feather headdress from the Origins artwork.
Treacherous Orchestra / An older, more mysterious Scotland. Detail restored for display.

Credits / Recognition

Concept / CD packaging — Paul Gray, Suisse.