Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles
The Stars Are Out
- Sugar Hill Records
- jewelcase with 12 page insert
After having worked with Sarah on her previous release, Diamonds in the Dark, we discovered we work very well together. It’s always quite liberating to have a client really trusts your judgment and reasoning for specific design choices. When we began working on concepts for The Stars Are Out we decided to take a relatively literal approach to this record, allowing the logo to live on the cover, but in more of a constellation inspired form. Lacking a great image to use as a base, we stepped out the studio’s back door and took a quick shot of the neighboring buildings for comp purposes. Sarah ended up loving the tone of the photograph and felt it complimented the sound of the record perfectly. We ended up shooting quite a few more images of our neighborhood—Boston’s lovely South End—for the interior booklet after hearing Sarah’s enthusiastic response. Sarah had a number of paintings we seamlessly integrated into the packaging as well, all in all it was quite a team effort.
