This project challenged me to redesign a vinyl record cover through the lens of a design history movement. Drawing on Art Nouveau, modernized through a rawer, hand-rendered sensibility, I chose The Doors’ Strange Days album as my subject.
Rather than approach it as a surface-level aesthetic exercise, I watched the Doors film to genuinely understand the band’s identity before putting anything on the page. What came through was Jim Morrison’s deeply spiritual and eccentric worldview, which became the conceptual anchor for the whole piece. The ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a serpent consuming its own tail, was a direct reference to the cyclical, infinite quality of Morrison’s philosophy and the band’s psychedelic ethos. At the center I placed the Nazar, the evil eye, as a nod to Morrison’s spirituality and his belief in forces beyond the visible world. The hand-drawn typography and monochromatic palette kept the design feeling visceral and intentional, less like a polished commercial artifact and more like something Morrison himself might have believed in.
