Happy Record Store Day 2014 everyone! It gives me great pleasure to finally reveal that a piece of artwork I designed was selected to be a part of the great Secret 7" initiative.

Secret 7" is an annual event that combines music and art for a good cause. Secret 7" take seven songs from seven well known musicians and press each one 100 times, inviting creatives from around the world to interpret the tracks in their own style, resulting in a one-of-a-kind sleeve for every 7”. The unique pieces of art were exhibited anonymously at Mother London Gallery in London before going on sale this Record Store Day. The proceeds from the event go to the War Child charity.
My design (seen above) was for the classic T. Rex track Get It On. Marc Bolan is one of my favorite artists I love the work he did as T. Rex in the 70's and feel so lucky to have had my artwork selected to represent this track. Get It On was released in 1971 it spent weeks at #1 and went on to sell millions around the world becoming a glam rock anthem. It’s taken from the album Electric Warrior.
I used a photo I took of a mirror ball exploding with light to represent the colourful excesses of the glam rock pioneer, T. Rex. When designing the cover I wanted to use a similar colour palate and treatment that was used on the original cover of the Electric-Warrior album, designed by British art design group Hipgnosis (see my photo of the original cover below).


I am including some pictures from the exhibition opening taken by the folks at Secret 7".