July 28, 2011

A Grand Design: Life In Your Way

A Grand Design: Life In Your Way

Life In Your Way – The Kingdom EPs

Connecticut’s Life In Your Way returns from the grave to release three EPs, each with their own specific theme, on the Come&Live! label. I contacted designer Bryan Minear about his work designing the covers.

“I knew I wanted the artwork for the three EPs to remain somewhat consistent. I kept in mind what Thrice did with The Alchemy Index, which I believe Dustin Kensrue himself did the artwork for. But really I just wanted to visualize what I felt the EPs were, which is hard sometimes when you don’t have any music to use as inspiration. The three artworks were done before LIYW even stepped into the studio. I felt like I had a firm enough grasp on the concept and what LIYW were going to do on their end to bring it all together. Darkness was the first to be completed, and still remains my favorite of the three.”

A Grand Design: Life In Your Way

“Basically what I decided to do was to pick something very celestial for The Kingdom of God. By definition, celestial means ‘belonging or relating to heaven’. And to me the moon portrayed just that. The Kingdom of Darkness obviously is satan’s realm. And his job is to stand between us and God, which an eclipse portrayed perfectly. And lastly I wanted an earthly scene portraying The Kingdom of Man but still realated to the imagery and the metaphors behind the other two, so a body of water or ‘the tide’ that is determined based on lunar phenomena makes for a good comparison to Man. We (as men) and our character depends almost distinctly on our relationship with God (or lack thereof). And that is the concept behind the artworks.”

A Grand Design: Life In Your Way

“On the technical side, each work took me anywhere from 15-20 hours in Photoshop to complete and is composited from many different images and textures. I can’t wait for everyone to see the completed package in print.”

10 Responses to “A Grand Design: Life In Your Way”

  1. On 07/28/11 5:03 PM, evilted said:

    well i’ll be damn something new on this site

  3. On 07/31/11 1:01 PM, Jordan Butcher said:

    Wow.. Wonder if the band wanted that logo? I did that thing like 5 years ago.. Hopefully they gave me credit in it. Images look cool though.

  5. On 07/31/11 1:51 PM, jordan orford said:

    So im gonna cry when i get the printed copies… its gonna happen

  7. On 08/1/11 3:28 PM, kyle u said:

    i just talked to them – you won’t get credit.

  9. On 09/9/11 12:46 AM, Bryan Minear said:

    So to clear things up, yes, Jordan will get the credit for the logo. When LIYW sent it to me they didn’t let me know who originally created it. Otherwise I would have mentioned him in this interview. I’m finishing up the packaging now and added him in. Sorry about the confusion.

  11. On 09/9/11 10:41 AM, kyle u said:

    that’s not what LIYW told me…

    I’ve never spoken to/met any of them.

  13. On 09/9/11 10:45 AM, bryan minear said:

    Well since I am laying out the packaging right now, and i put the credit in there, there’s not really a question. :)

  15. On 09/9/11 11:14 AM, kyle u said:

    Hopefully they give me credit for the confusion.

  17. On 09/9/11 12:37 PM, Jay DiNitto said:

    It’s nice to be known for something.

  19. On 10/21/11 2:16 PM, Life In Your Way // Kingdoms by Bryan Minear said:

    [...] bit on the “kingdoms” artwork by life in your way. You can read an article about it here, but i thought it would be nice to share a little bit about it [...]

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