“Skyfall” by Thomas Newman

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Framed by the two original artworks (#1, #6), here are my custom creations for the Thomas Newman soundtrack Skyfall. I really dig the design route they went with this James Bond movie. It’s almost British understatement. The high-contrast black cover is stylish and cool, just like 007 himself. And the sans serif font they were using for the Skyfall logo is dead on! Together with the film title it forms a crystal clear and very powerful logo treatment. This series was a quick job, all done within a couple hours. I wanted to keep it simple and subtle, just like…

“I Am Legend” by James Newton Howard

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With recently releases The Last of Us and World War Z, I was once again in my annual zombie fever. So I thought, it was the perfect time to make a few covers for one of my all-time favourite James Newton Howard scores: I Am Legend. The 2007 film, directed by Francis Lawrence, wasn’t received that well by critics, but I fell for it immediately. I’m a sucker for apocalypse movies/books/games in general. And the mature approach on such serious topics like loss, lonelyness and guilt was a game-changer for me. Although there’s a huge amount of silence in the…

“World War Z” by Marco Beltrami, Muse

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After last week’s The Last of Us I’m pleased to give to you the next entry in my so-called “Summer Zombie Survival Trilogy”. Marco Beltrami’s World War Z. I always enjoy the clear sound and dynamic range in Marco’s scores and this one makes no difference. Next to Chris Young he’s probably my favourite horror genre composer out there. Add to this a pulsating main theme by Muse (which didn’t make the album cut sadly) and you’ll get one of the best and most thrilling scores of the summer. The concept for my main custom cover (#1) was there from…

“The Last of Us” & “Left Behind” by Gustavo Santaolalla, Various Artists

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Sometimes… mostly in the middle of the night… when I finish a new covers series and take a glimpse at the clock, I wonder why I keep doing this? Why I stay up long into the night when I know I’ll have to get up for another day’s work five hours later. And why I meticulously scan the whole internet for that one perfect template, retouch every dot and reallign every line and keep fiddling and tweaking until the very last pixel perfectly sits in its right spot. It’s a ridiculous amount of time I’m spending on these things, it’s…

“The Social Network” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Various Artists

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With The Social Network Trent Reznor’s recent change of style culminated into an astonishing, Golden Globe- and Academy Award-winning musical composition. Together with long-time collaborator and soundtrack composer of his own, Atticus Ross, he inked the film images into an incredibly melancholy, yet restlessly pulsating sound cloud, that pushed the film in a completely different light. Please have a look at this short documentary to see and especially hear the huge impact Reznor and Ross had with their score. With David Fincher at helm of the movie one could assume to get a thoughtful and stylish ad campaign. But looking at…