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People in Orbit

2023

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The Close/Away album cover: a dense botanical world in purple, pink and green, with figures seated before a glowing stage and the band name above.

Album artwork for electroacoustic jazz quintet People in Orbit.

The Close/Away digipack spread: front, back, tracklist and credits panels, some rotated for printing.
The Close/Away vinyl label, a circle of overlapping coloured petals and plants with the credits running around the edge.
Detail of the left side of the front cover: dense foliage in blue, green and orange with a seated figure in red.

I met trumpet player Adam Sass while working on another production, and he reached out about designing the artwork for their debut album Close/Away, released on Prophone Records in 2023. I was inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and Hilma af Klint's colour work. The artwork is a repeating pattern that stitches onto itself, as if it were a physical world with several entries from the different sides of the print.

Detail of the right side of the front cover: three figures watching among pink and orange plants.
The inside panel of the digipack: an arched window with a bird in flight, framed by pale trees and pink flowers on a yellow wall.

For their second album Viewpoint, released on April Records in 2026, I made the artwork across the album and three singles: Synchronized Whalestuff, Spinning Downwards, and Cycle 3, Everlasting Confusion. The album artwork takes a macro perspective, inspired by the artwork for Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson and the cyclical, almost diabolical world of Uzumaki by Junji Ito. The contrast of those two realms, with a lighthouse shining its light in the centre, became the foundation. The singles zoom in: a whale's eye, a whirling vortex in the sea, a fresnel lens from the lighthouse.

The full Viewpoint artwork: two mirrored faces in profile frame a swirling sea, with the lighthouse shining from the centre of the vortex.
Single artwork for Synchronized Whalestuff: a close view of a whale's eye in blue, silver and black.
Single artwork for Spinning Downwards: a dark whirling vortex in the sea, seen from above.

I also made their website, peopleinorbit.se: a photographed shelf where the records, the TV and the phone lead to the music, videos and shows.

Single artwork for Cycle 3, Everlasting Confusion: a fresnel lens glowing in warm and cool light against the dark.
The People in Orbit website: a photographed living-room shelf with books, records, a turntable, speakers, a glowing lamp, a band photo, a static-filled TV and a red phone, with About, Listen, Watch, Shows and Contact across the top and a Signs of Presence poster on the wall.

In 2026 I made the live visuals for their performance Signs of Presence.