Album Design

THE WAITIKI 7
Project: Design a vinyl album package for Caves of the Sea by The Waitiki 7. Our role was to develop an immersive package to help tell this story, which includes the design of a full color jacket featuring hand drawn underwater illustrations of sea caves and Atlantic tarpon, an interactive, vintage style newspaper inner sleeve, a custom colored vinyl disc, and center label.
We designed the 180g virgin vinyl disc to mimic the eye on the tarpon seen on the jacket cover. Each disc is made of translucent yellow-green vinyl with a dark teal inlay. No two “tarpon eyes” are the same, making for a unique collectible feature in this limited pressing of just 300 albums. The Exotica Extra newspaper sleeve features a deep dive into the album, including an assortment of vintage style advertisements, cocktail recipes, and a crossword puzzle for the ultimate Waitiki 7 fans.
Caves of the Sea lauds Exotica masters—Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Harold Chang, and Brother Cleve—each of whom has given the band the inspiration, insight, and courage to forge their path forward to create a future for this music, the genre that they lovingly gave life to.