Aisle.One

I recently designed the cover of a promo EP for a New York City band called Scout. The album is titled “All Those Relays” and after speak­ing with the band I was inspired to use cir­cuit schematic sym­bols in the design. I find the schemat­ics to be visu­ally inter­est­ing and the sym­bols have a cer­tain beauty to them. I’ve always seen dif­fer­ent let­ters in the sym­bols, so I had the idea of form­ing the album name using the sym­bols in a schematic.

After research­ing the stan­dard sym­bols used in the indus­try, I knew that I would have to just make up some of the sym­bols myself. So some of them are actual sym­bols, some are vari­a­tions on sym­bols and some are com­pletely fabricated.

The tough­est part was form­ing the let­ters, but not mak­ing them too obvi­ous and at the same time remain­ing true to the stan­dard sym­bols. Doing this and keep­ing a seam­less cir­cuit also proved to be dif­fi­cult. I went through a few pen­cil sketches before set­tling on a path.

All in all I’m pretty happy with the results. You can check out more pho­tos on my site.