The music score to Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars anthology series Andor is a difficult beast. The series itself, a gripping political thriller and perhaps the best that Star Wars had to offer for years, isn’t exactly easy to follow. But Nicholas Britell’s music demands your full attention too to keep you from bouncing off it. Once you’ve come to terms with the fact that you’re in a completely different musical universe to John Williams’ film scores, Andor will provide you with some new and fresh aspects that you have never heard under the Star Wars banner before. On first listen,…
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“Star Wars – The Japan Editions” by John Williams
When I stumbled upon the Japan Edition of The Rise of Skywalker at some point in 2019, I wondered why the Japanese get these wonderful designs while we, the rest of the world, have to deal with mundane stock artwork? Clearly there’s gotta be someone who had to deal with that injustice, so why not me? I spent about half an hour to remake The Rise of Skywalker in square format. And then I decided I’d do the same for The Last Jedi, yet with a few subtle differences compared to the official cover art. And because I was…
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” by John Williams
So… where were we? Oh right, I had put all my unfinished projects on hold to tinker with some cowboy covers. And it only took me 287 days. Wonderful, huh?!? I’m sure both of you regular visitors didn’t mind. But now back to business, shall we? After all there has been a new Star Wars movie coming along. And although I doubted that the finale of the sequel trilogy would affect me as emotionally as the originals did at their time, I’m still quite a passionate fan when it comes to George Lucas’ space opera. Most of all I’m keen…
Lost Covers, Vol. 5
This years entry of our ongoing series “Lost Covers” contains a wide array of different works. Like its predecessors, most covers in here showcase all kinds of failures and *whatcangowrongs* in cover design. But there also are little gemstones like my contract work for Gwenaël Mario Grisi, a rising Belgian composer whose overnight(!) composition Through the Clouds definitely was one of the most beautiful tracks I’ve heard in 2017. Also, Gwenaël has his own IMdb page, so he’s officially my new best friend ;) The overall amount of commissioned covers is unusually high this time. Not royalty-based though, only voluntary…
“Star Wars – The Dan Mumford Series” by John Williams
Hello! Today I’m presenting you both old and new stuff. Over the course of the last few weeks London based freelance illustrator Dan Mumford released the full set of art prints that he did for The Last Jedi. I took this opportunity and turned them into four different custom covers, just like I did roughly two years ago for The Force Awakens (I overhauled those as well). Assuming that there’ll be four more artworks in two more years, at the latest, for Episode IX, I thought that it’s finally time to give these ladies their own spotlight. In case you’re interested in having these designs…





