After Cheesecake Comes Love - vinyl sleeve design

Commissioned as a one of a kind anniversary gift, this project was conceived as a deeply personal object rather than a conventional record sleeve. The client wanted to celebrate his relationship with his fiancée through a vinyl cover that would resonate with both their shared history and their artistic sensibilities. As gallery managers and lovers of abstract art, they were drawn to a photograph taken on the day they publicly announced their relationship—an image captured in front of PAH (1998) by Michel Majerus. The challenge was to reinterpret this meaningful moment in a way that felt intimate, contemporary, and visually aligned with the format of a vinyl record.Using Adobe Photoshop, I reimagined the original photograph through abstraction, shifting it from documentation to design. The couple’s silhouettes were extracted from the image and positioned at the heart of the composition, replacing the traditional center hole of the vinyl—turning the record itself into a symbolic portrait. The Majerus painting they once stood before was digitally liquified and reshaped into a circular form that mirrors the geometry of the vinyl, allowing the artwork, the object, and the story to merge into a single visual language. The final result is a clean yet expressive set—sleeve, back cover, and center label—that blends personal memory with abstract art, transforming a milestone in their relationship into a tactile, lasting gift. #graphicdesigner #photoshop #indesign #creativedesign