FBGM
Vinyl Record

7” Vinyl Record & Jacket Design

FBGM is my band – a songwriting duo with my friend D. Orxata. I’ve wanted to release music on vinyl since I first started playing in bands in high school but I never made it happen… until now!

For our double A-side single Dog Collar / Fan, I designed the artwork based on a flower pattern from an old wallpaper print I found and had been playing around with. I redrew everything from a scan and manipulated it in Adobe Illustrator to get the right color combinations and composition. We then handed it off to hexhand who did a beautiful job riso printing the covers. We pressed a very limited run of 100 copies and cut, hand-folded, hand-numbered, and assembled every jacket. As a musician and a designer, I’m very proud of this project.

We are 100% independent and completely self-funded. This means we wrote, performed, recorded, and mixed each song ourselves. We spent months working on them. One of the fondest memories I have is recording D.’s vocals for Fan in our rehearsal space very late on Christmas Eve 2016. It felt good to be working on music when we knew everyone was asleep dreaming of Santa.

Purchase a physical copy and listen to the songs via Bandcamp.