Macintosh Plus – “Sick & Panic” single cover
“Sick & Panic” by Macintosh Plus (a.k.a. Vektroid) is an experimental single released in December 2019 on the Chronos & Vermilion label, a clothing and multimedia imprint started by the artist.
Vektroid is an American electronic musician from Portland, Oregon. She is particularly invested in vaporwave. Of her various pseudonyms, Macintosh Plus is used more often for her musical compositions of vaporwave.
The cover of this project is clearly in the vaporwave aesthetic, with a marble statue cut out and colored, very vivid colors, and a typeface that is rather vintage (cf. the Floral Shoppe album from 2011). Eurostile is a typeface that dates from the early 1960s and was often used in the late 20th century. It’s Vektroid herself who designed the cover.
In this typographic composition the typeface is skewed, to create the impression of spatiality. Both on the front and the back, the typography takes an important role for creating forms with a strange perspective. The small text on the back uses the same typeface, in black, and partly set vertically.
Sleeve with vinyl record
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