“Alien: Earth” by Jeff Russo

Looking back at my blog history, it’s obvious how much the Alien series means to me. I’ve spent countless of hours designing individual custom covers or whole CD or vinyl mockups. Heck, for Prometheus alone, I have created over a hundred different designs. For a long time, those projects were my safe space – a way to retreat, to dive into that horrific yet beautiful universe that feels so cold and dark and infinite. I simply fucking love those deep blue-and-black colour palettes in Cameron’s Aliens, for example. For many, this means the ultimate nightmare, but for me it’s like…

“Jurassic World Rebirth” by Alexandre Desplat

July 8, 2025September 5, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Original CoversTags: Jurassic Park · Jurassic World · Jurassic World Rebirth5 Comments

“Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun…I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it…

“The Beach” by Angelo Badalamenti, Various Artists

July 5, 2025September 5, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · RemakesTags: Angelo Badalamenti · The BeachLeave a comment

Parallel Universe… Paradise Found… Innocence Lost Danny Boyle’s The Beach is a story of adventure, youth, and escapism – all wrapped in shimmering turquoise and existential dread. Based on Alex Garland’s novel, the film follows Richard, a disillusioned backpacker who stumbles upon a secret island utopia in Thailand. But utopias, as we learn, have a dark underside. What gives The Beach its pulse isn’t just the haunting cinematography or Leonardo DiCaprio’s sun-dazed performance. As so often in the films of Danny Boyle, the king of needle-dropping(!), it is once again the music that turns the experience from an adventurous popcorn…

“28 Years Later” by Young Fathers

July 1, 2025December 30, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Original Covers · Singles/EPs · Vinyl CoversTags: 28 Days Later · 28 Weeks Later · 28 Years Later · Young Fathers1 Comment

Danny Boyle’s 2002 film 28 Years Later heralded a veritable zombie renaissance. With a guerrilla-like handheld style, its relentless violence and deep-rooted melancholy, the film revived the entire genre from the undead for years to come. A crucial element of this success was the movie’s groundbreaking soundtrack. The score was noisy and unnerving as the lonely main character roams through a deserted London or gentle and melodic as all hell breaks loose in an old English mansion. It’s contradictions like these that have made 28 Days Later an iconic piece of horror cinema even today. A no less successful soundtrack…

“Nosferatu” by Robin Carolan

March 11, 2025September 5, 2025 Categories: Custom Covers · Mockups · Original Covers · Vinyl CoversTags: Nosferatu · Robin Carolan3 Comments

The main reason why I wanted to have Robert Eggers’ latest work Nosferatu on my blog is the arresting logo design by Teddy Blanks. This US graphic designer, who has previously collaborated with Eggers on his 2019 maritime horror film The Lighthouse, has created a haunting gothic font that I could hardly take my eyes off. It’s so menacing and seductively dark and I feel a whole lot of emotions just by looking at it. But that’s no surprise, as Blanks is a household name in Hollywood with well over a hundred titles under his belt. This guy knows exactly…