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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Capitol Records (Hollywood, California)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral
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In keeping with the “Foo Fighters/UFO” theme of the project, we didn’t want the cover image to be visually obvious. The raygun (a “Daisy XZ-38 Disintegrator pistol”) was found in a book David Grohl suggested. A daisy toy gun collector in Minnesota was located through a want ad in a national toy collector magazine. The next part of the project was to photograph the raygun, but not just a typical shot. We decided to shoot a 4”x5” Polaroid of it and transfer it onto watercolor paper, shooting forty images to get the right one. The image used for the final cover was the very first one shot.