This is for one of the bands on the HSR roster, Beautiful Lunar Landscape, for a gig in Bordeaux, France, where they were ably supported by another HSR outfit, Colour Kane, who hail from Belgium.
I got inspired by the amazing French illustrator Michel Quarez who did, among other things, some very psychedelic ads for Citroen in the late ’60s. Thanks to our involvement with Hidden Shoal Recordings, Lightship Visual is becoming a small international concern and I can play at being a Reid Miles (the Bluenote sleeves guy) or whoever does those stunning ECM covers - Stu

Why have we been so busy? In addition to running the biz and working for all our fabulous clients, and me (claiming that I’m) writing my PhD, we’ve gotten mixed up with Hidden Shoal Recordings, a fab initiative of the wonderful Cam Merton (sometime Lightship collaborator, especially in the 3D department). You can go there to check out what it’s all about, but here are a couple of samples of my covers for some of the wonderful acts on the HSR roster.

This is the cover for an EP by the Japanese artist Cheekbone. Photo by Samantha.

This one is for my own project (with Wayne Harriss). The image is a camera throw, a chaotic means of taking a photograph that Samantha showed me. Hers are better, check out her ‘Serpent’s Sleep’ cover for CSR.

And an illustrative one. The title I took from Jorge Luis Borges’ story. A must read by the way
There are plenty more covers over at HSR but these are the ones I think are really working for me.
—Stu

It’s been a while, by garrh. We’ve been so flat out at Lightship that I haven’t had time to put any new posts up since, ooh, about half-past 2006. So, appropriately, here is something from the end of that year, an all singing, all dancing, interactive yearbook of graduate student work from the School of Communications and Contemporary Arts at ECU. Anyone truly interested in the project can contact stu@lightshipvisual.com and you can avail yourself of a copy of the CD (while stocks last!). Some new Flash skills were learned during the making and a big thanks must go to Malcolm Riddoch for his assistance in getting this over the line. Hmm … now it’s just about time for this year’s book. And stay tuned for the redesign and rebuild of the School’s website, very late 2007.