WET BANDITS

For Wet Bandits’ album roll out of Bad Tattoos and Weathermen, I led the graphic design direction with a focus on custom, sun-drenched surreal illustrations. I drew influence from the textured grit of Wunderhorse and the nostalgic cool of Oasis.

The initial album art concept stemmed from a dream frontman Finn had: a fat cat riding a Shetland pony. A metaphor for the weight of bad habits holding you down, like drinking and smoking. That surreal image became the visual backbone of the entire campaign.

We carried this storyline through the single artworks for It’s No Use and Not Blue, expanding the world piece by piece until it all came together in the final vinyl packaging. The project also extended into merch design, animated visuals, as well as 2 additional single artworks using existing elements from the vinyl. This brought the dream further to life across every touchpoint.

Most recently we worked on the tour poster for the NZ leg of Bad Tattoos & Weathermen.

I jumped in with a bold orange as an homage to the ‘It’s no use’ single art, and recolouring the main horse and cat artwork to suit. Carried the scribbly text over, but also came in with a clean font for the main act and dates for legibility and point of difference to what we had done in the past.

Absolutely love how it turned out.

It was a pleasure to be trusted with shaping such a unique world, building characters, meaning, and texture from one dream into a fully realised album universe.

The album is out now! Go check it out.

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