
Cicada Waves - Record Sleeve Redesign
Cicada Waves - Record Sleeve Redesign
October 2025
October 2025
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In this project, I set out to redesign Ben Seretan's 2021 ambient album, "Cicada Waves" whilst honouring the aesthetic conventions of the ambient genre. I began by creating a series of textures using ink and arrived at a shape which could be overlaid over a film photograph of a forest canopy. I wanted the album to feel summery, hence why I chose warm green as the primary colour; I want the album to evoke dry grass in the shade.



Illustration trials:





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Elena Hogan acknowledges and pays respect to the traditional custodians and first peoples of the land on which she works - the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

Cicada Waves - Record Sleeve Redesign
October 2025
โง.*
In this project, I set out to redesign Ben Seretan's 2021 ambient album, "Cicada Waves" whilst honouring the aesthetic conventions of the ambient genre. I began by creating a series of textures using ink and arrived at a shape which could be overlaid over a film photograph of a forest canopy. I wanted the album to feel summery, hence why I chose warm green as the primary colour; I want the album to evoke dry grass in the shade.



Illustration trials:





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Elena Hogan acknowledges and pays respect to the traditional custodians and first peoples of the land on which she works - the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.