Welcome to the ADVENT PRODUCTIONS homepage, a website that collects the (photo)graphic production of graphic designer Eugenio Crippa. Everything you see here is the result of a self-learning process in the fields of graphics, programming and photography.
Here, you can browse my PORTFOLIO, read my blog, or eventually contact me at this address!
12th January 2012
LE ORME – AD GLORIAM / L’AURORA DELLE ORME
Following the vinyl replicas, here are the CD paperlseeves, including a 8-page booklet with 1968-69 exclusive advertisings from Italian old magazines. Soon available from btf.it.
31st December 2011
DATURA – VISIONS FOR THE CELESTIAL
Datura were a stoner / sludge / psychedelic band from… New Zealand! "Visions for the Celestial" is their second and last album, released in 1999 and now reissued on LP by the German label Krauted Mind. I used the original album cover for the front, and made a completely different artwork based on the original pictures used on past releases.
18th December 2011
COME TO THE SABBAT
This is a very interesting book about English dark / esoteric / obscure musicians and bands I made the cover for, written in Italian by Antonello Cresti. You can buy it and see a 20-page preview here.
7th December 2011
GARYBALDI – LIVE IN BLOOM PREVIEW
A small preview of what’s coming soon. More pictures can be found in the portfolio section.
6th December 2011
BALLETTO DI BRONZO – ON THE ROAD TO YS… AND BEYOND!
AMS 200 CD.
Soon available on CD, with some live bonust tracks not included on the LP version.
5th July 2011
GOBLIN PICTURE LP’s.
A couple of Goblin picture vinlys have just been released by AMS/BTF, Roller and Suspiria, and some others will probably follow soon.
From the source images of the first LP reissues, I made the layout for these ones, and the stickers you can see below.
Title tracks were handwritten by me too, since i couldn’t distort them as I wanted simply using photoshop. The style is the one of the psychedelic Fillmore font.
3rd July 2011
SOUNDS OF UNDERGROUND VOL. 1
Thanks to the collaboration between AMS and Claudio Fucci, who was a folk musician in the ’70s and is now an editor, I started working last year for Vololibero Edizioni, a small but interesting company which is releasing music-related products, sometimes books, sometimes CDs, sometimes both of them. This one below is one of the last cases: a 64-page book with a CD, containing 23 unreleased songs, one for each band included on paper.
This was promoted by Real Sound studios from Milan, a place where those bands recorded their new songs, and where some of them also recorded their previous releases. It’s the first in a – at least planned – series of volumes which collect new and emerging bands, focusing on a specific music genre.
Since this one is about italian punk rock / rockabilly / rock’n'roll music, the cover takes the yellow color from the punk-ish pink/yellow combination, around the burnt colours of the Italian flag.
12th May 2011
GOBLIN – NON HO SONNO
Where shall I start from for this? I think it’s a great achievement, first of all because "Non Ho Sonno", the soundtrack from the 2001 film by Dario Argento, the last one scored by Goblin, who reformed their classic line-up after more than 20 years, has never been released on LP until today. Never. Until now.
I started to work on this at least six months ago. I really wanted to create a new cover art, since the old one was – and still is – terrible. When I began studying the ‘Goblin subject’ to work on these soundtrack releases, I soon realized that the band never took care of the visual aspect accompanying their music. Even the names "Goblin" and "Cherry Five" had been chosen by the record label at the time. I can’t help that… whenever I make something like this, I want to put my ‘visual signature’ on it. The porfolio contains work-in-progress pictures of the album cover, which was initially inspired by "The Towering Inferno". Many ideas followed, to decide in which form the album would eventually be released. There’s also a ‘standard version’ I made, with the essay I wrote about the album and the film on the back cover instead of the giant 60x90cm poster here included – since the standard version wouldn’t contain the poster; maybe it’ll be used for a re-release of a product that, a couple of days after its official release, is almost sold-out already!
I guess the above picture speaks for itself: five colours, five hundreds pieces. There’ll be also a sticker on the cover, identifying the vinyl colour. And a small postcard, telling the listener that the 2 sides of the LP have been unintentionally inverted. These are the joys and pains of this work. But the result, such as in this case, is absolutely remarkable!
22nd April 2011
KEITH EMERSON – INFERNO
Back in 1980, when Goblin were actually disbanding due to many contrasts inside the band, Dario Argento was working on the production of one of his latest masterpieces, "Inferno". He could not count anymore – at least at that moment – on the group who wrote the soundtrack for "Profondo Rosso", "Suspiria" and "Zombi", and right after he discovered that also Emerson Lake & Palmer had split up too, he went to England to ask Keith Emerson to collaborate with him. The result is a collection of songs that perfectly blend with the images of the film, an album that actually started Emerson’s solo career, the first in a series of soundtracks that Keith wrote during the ’80s.
That LP has now been repressed by AMS Recors, with the usual inlay poster [a little smaller than usual... that's what happens when people want to save money!] that I designed, following the scheme of the past works.
These are a couple of pics that eventually didn’t end up in the poster, the first one especially being the "happy new year" flyer from Trafalgar Square Studios in Rome, where "Inferno" was recorded:
Pictures and order infos can be found in the portfolio as usual.
16th February 2011
BALLETTO DI BRONZO – ON THE ROAD TO YS
A lot of time has passed since my last post. Many things have happened in the meanwhile. There are a couple of book designs to post here, I guess I’ll do that in the near future. Now I’m gonna speak about a new LP-only release, for another legendary band in the Italian Progressive Rock panorama, that is Balletto di Bronzo! I was given some band photos to work on, but only one – that I put on the cover – was actually good for a LP cover. So I had to fill the remaining space with something else; since “YS” is the name of a sort of ancient ghost town, let’s say an Atlantis from Bretagne, France, I found out an old map of that territory, that ended up inside the gatefold envelope. The back – and part of the front – cover was then filled with a leaves photograph, that was manipulated in order to perfectly blend with the band photo.
The result turned out to be great, honestly! While YS is an Italian Prog Rock masterpiece, this “Return to YS” contains English-sung demos, that were eventually recorded but never released in any form until today, with a live version of “La tua casa comoda”. The inner notes are interesting too; written by the eccentric keyboardist Gianni Leone, they tell how the band went to Milan to record “YS”, and was forced by the record label to sing in Italian.
There are two versions for this. A black 180gr ordinary one, and a limited one with a red vinyl and two A4 postcards signed by Gianni Leone. Why aren’t these ones below signed then? Because I got them before they were sent to Leone’s place in Rome and came back to the record label office in Milan.
Other images & links in the portfolio as always.
