This was indeed my first project, and quite a big one to start with! I’d be lying if I said it was not a challenge, but I must say I like to test myself. All the artworks for the album’s campaign are based on the same graffiti wall, including instruments and backdrops how did you approach such an undertaking? Mylo Xyloto’s cover is your first big official project for the band.
How did you first get involved with Coldplay? In December 2012, the sales of original Mylo Xyloto album artwork by Coldplay band members and Paris reached a record high of £635,000 during an exhibition organised at Proud Camden galleries by Fraser Kee Scott of Album Artists all proceeds were destined for Kids Company, a children’s charity providing support to over 17,000 vulnerable inner-city children across London. As the icing on the cake, Paris was offered the opportunity to decoratemany of the bands instruments and stage sets for their 2011 festival tour and collaborate with Mat Whitecross and Pulse films to produce animated graffiti sequences for the Every teardrop is a waterfallvideo. Inspired to the history of wall painting and public graffiti – researches started about six months before the work had begun – the nine-part artwork was meant to be a blaze of colours and the album cover proved to be a total shift from Viva la Vida’s showing Eugène Delacroix’s The Liberty Leading the People. Introduced to Coldplay by art director and set designer Misty Buckley, Paris painted the mural that later appeared on the album’s cover along with the band and under the supervision of graphic designer and Coldplay long-time collaborator Tappin Gofton. or not, you will agree that Coldplay’s fifth album hardly goes unnoticed and, once again, a good deal of the credit goes to the cover artwork based on a graffiti painting by the band’s artist in residence, Paris.īorn in 1974 and raised in Hull, England, Paris has been the artist in residence for Coldplay since 2011 always up for breaking new ground, he has developed a unique and highly distinctive style of painting – a colourful mishmash combining spray-paint, Futurism and mark-making, suspended between past and future. Would they ever sound the same without Peter Blake’s “parade of stars” or Andy Warhol’s close-up of a jeans-clad male crotch on their cover? I bet they wouldn’t and what about Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto? Whether you are a fan of Chris Martin & co. Pepper’sor Stones’ Sticky Fingers – just to name the first two that come to my mind.
What is it that makes analbum a greatalbum? The music, of course, but let’s be frank, even the cover needs to electrifythe audience’s attention. 1883 caught up with the artist behind the mind-blowing album cover of 2011 Coldplay’s smash hit, Mylo Xyloto.
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