Album art direction, cover art and campaign design for Dizzy — a partnership running since Zuttlukten.

Client

Dizzy · Dirty South · Island Records

Year

2021 — 2024

Role

Art Direction & Cover Art

Smutsiga Söder album artwork for Dizzy — a rearing black horse in a smoke-filled red street, the artist name above and the album title in torn white display type
Smutsiga Söder album artwork for Dizzy — a rearing black horse in a smoke-filled red street, the artist name above and the album title in torn white display type

Project Description

Dizzy is where the studio’s music work began, and it has run longer than anything else we do — from Zuttlukten through album identity and official posters for Dirty South and Island Records.


A cover is not a film poster. You get one square, and it has to carry the track at the size of a phone tile while still reading as the artist across an entire catalogue.


Each release gets its own world on a consistent construction: one central image, a title treatment drawn for that artwork rather than set in a typeface, and a palette narrowed to only what the track needs.


Smutsiga Söder is the largest piece of it. The rearing horse came out of the record rather than being applied to it, and carries across cover, tracklist and physical packaging.


Made alongside DOPEST throughout, the partnership has produced multiple platinum and gold certified releases.

Överallt official poster for Dizzy — the artist seated in the open door of a Bell 206 helicopter in a blue puffer, title in large distressed serif across the lower half, Island Records Sweden credits beneath
Känslokall official poster for Dizzy — the artist in a black puffer reaching toward camera, cut out against a cyan city collage, the title in quotes below with Dirty South and Island Records logos
Smutsiga Söder album artwork for Dizzy — a rearing black horse in a smoke-filled red street, the artist name above and the album title in torn white display type
Smutsiga Söder layout spread — the album artwork on the left page, colour palette swatches and skin-tone grading chips on the right
Smutsiga Söder research spread — pinned reference photography and handwritten direction notes worked into the album's visual brief
Smutsiga Söder tracklist page — T-House, Backa, Dirty South, Extendo, Bara Om Ni Visste, KOD, Hur & När, Gang Go and Zuttlukten set over the smoke-lit street
Smutsiga Söder concept page marked CD Front Idea 01 — handwritten reasoning for the horse motif facing the artwork across the spread
Smutsiga Söder physical packaging mockups — jewel cases showing the front artwork and inner spread
Smutsiga Söder CD packaging laid out — printed disc, sleeve and tracklist card beside a sketchbook page reading art direction by Anell Samardzic, project Dizzy x Dopest
ZUTTLUKTEN single artwork for Dizzy — a lone rider crossing a blood-red desert under a low sun, the title in weathered gold western lettering
ÖVERALLT single artwork for Dizzy — an antique treasure map strewn with gold watches, chains and a compass, the title set across it in engraved serif capitals
KÄNSLOKALL single artwork for Dizzy — a figure silhouetted in a gothic arched window looking out over a fractured city, title in bold white capitals below
HABIBI YOU single artwork for Dizzy — an extreme close crop on red lips against tropical foliage and prismatic colour, the title handwritten in yellow script
ZINAH single artwork for Dizzy — a woman in a red gown seen from behind in a candlelit hall, the title mirrored above her in white display type
CALMA single artwork for Tinda x Dizzy — a womans profile in double exposure with palm fronds and a bleached coastline, the title in soft coral serif
HARRAGAS single artwork for Dizzy — a small boat on churning blue water above a drowned, fractured seascape, the title in sharp white gothic capitals
HANTERAR single artwork for Dizzy — a burning city block rendered in deep reds with a figure standing in the smoke, the title in bold white capitals across the centre
UTE PÅ JAKT single artwork for Dizzy — a hooded figure and a dog advancing through grey smoke, the title stencilled across the top in distressed red
ÖVERALLT alternate artwork for Dizzy — a woman in a pink satin gown seated before an ornate globe under neon signage, the title glowing above her
MELANIE single artwork for Dizzy — a framed portrait of a woman with a black bar across her eyes, floating on a deep red gradient, the title in white script
NAKALA single artwork for Owen and Dizzy — an eruption of fire and ash filling a black field, the title set small in white capitals at the centre
BRAZIL single artwork for Dizzy — a dark tropical jungle lit from below with red droplets in the foreground, the title in heavy yellow capitals
NIKE TECH single artwork for Dizzy — a hooded figure in shadow against magenta and violet haze, the title running vertically up the right edge

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