The second album from the Brooklyn group The Depreciation Guild, Spirit Youth, is a departure from the restrained 8-bit songs towards richer, dreamy, even melancholic arrangements. 

 

Design for the album reflects the transition of the music. I started with a drawing of a paper plane figure. The grid interpretation expresses the 8-bit DNA of the songs and gives the record a connection to the design of first album cover. There is still a sense of geometric order, but the grid elements start to break away and flow, creating figures and landscapes. The original drawing appears on the record label and the merchandise.