The Outlaw Ocean Music Series

Art direction, design and visual conception for 400+ unique album cover artworks + branded title designs for this ongoing music series based on "The Outlaw Ocean", a New York Times Best-Selling book by Ian Urbina that chronicles lawlessness at sea around the world. This reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships and other topics. While reporting for more than 5 years at sea, Urbina built an audio library of field recordings. It featured a diversity of textured and rhythmic sounds like machine-gun fire off the coast of Somalia and chanting captive deckhands on the South China Sea.

The visual concept of the series was to create artwork for each release using only images contained in the source image library that was put together by the photography team that traveled with Urbina.

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