Illustration, Printed media
Illustrations and cover design for Musterion album The Wondrous Journey Through The Catacombs Of Life. Illustrated according to the album’s story & concept. Special 8-panel digipak with 12-page booklet.
Client: Horus CyclicDaemon, Czech Republic.
Year: 2009
Reviews:
“The first thing to praise with this album is the outstanding artwork laid out as great work of art on a multi panel Digipack. The artwork is truly clever and honestly I cannot think about any artist in the genre of dark ambient that released an album as beautiful as this.” (Chain DLK, Italy)
“The CD artwork perfectly illustrates the meaning of the work: collages in which elements are subverted our Western culture: a King Kong in the costume of Superman destroying the Empire State, decaying skeletons, a bottle of poison and a kind of spider with human head and limbs with multiple eyes (this reminds me of the end of the movie The Fly (1958), where the end is the human-headed fly trapped in a spider web). It is the world of dreams, its the collective unconscious of mental deconstruction of a world that torments us.” (Mentenembre, Portugal)
Illustration, Web Design
Educational interactive bilingual website about the history of a region. Web design (flash, xhtml, css, javascript) and some of the illustrations.
client: Sagalund Museum, Finland.
year: 2009
Illustration, Printed media
Illustrations and layout for a children’s novel Suin päin Summanmutikkaan. Hardcover book, 62 pages in total. Characters based on ‘Summanmutikka’ guidelines.
client: WSOY Oppi&Ilo, Finland
year: 2009
Illustration, Printed media
Design and illustration for Niko Skorpio album. Special fold-out sleeve, 6 panels size A5.
genre: experimental / electronic / dark ambient.
client: Some Place Else, Finland.
year: 2009
Illustration
Cover illustration and some inner pages for children’s activity book. Characters based on Summanmutikka guidelines.
client: WSOY Oppi&Ilo
year: 2008
Illustration, Printed media
Illustrations and cover design for Way of the Gods album by Shinkiro.
genre: ambient, electroacoustic.
client: Athanor, France.
year: 2008
Illustration, Printed media
Design and illustration for Tenhornedbeast remix album cover. Design “similar but different” to its brother album. Digipak with spot gloss. Disc PMS + spot matt varnish.
genre: dark ambient / drone / noise
client: Cold Spring Records, UK
year: 2008
Illustration, Printed media
Illustrations and layout for children’s book Yks kaks yllättäen. Hardcover book, 44 pages in total. Characters based on ‘Summanmutikka’ guidelines.
client: WSOY Oppi&Ilo, Finland.
year: 2008
Illustration, Printed media
Album cover design and illustrations for Half Born in Half Light album by Niko Skorpio. 12-panel booket and disc.
genre: experimental/electronic
client: Some Place Else, Finland
year: 2008
Illustration, Printed media
Illustrations and design for The Sacred Truth album by Tenhornedbeast. Digipak with spot gloss. Disc PMS + spot matt varnish.
genre: dark ambient / drone / noise
client: Cold Spring Records, UK
year: 2007
Reviews:
“Mention should also be made of The Sacred Truth’s packaging, and kudos is due to Finnish industrial musician Niko Skorpio for his top-notch design job. The minimalist matt finish digipack sleeve with spot varnishing is rich with warm brown tones, lending an appropriately earthy, shamanic feel to the release.”
– Simon Collins / Judas Kiss Magazine (UK)
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Additionally, front cover image modified for a line of T-shirts.
See also the corresponding design for the remix album.
