Teach Your Children How to Think...

Uploaded by:	harveyhartley
Country:	United Kingdom
Website:	http://www.monoharvey.co.uk

The brief for Mt.’s Teach Your Children How To Think, Not What To Think EP was to produce a cost effective, but visually arresting cover themed around the concept of free thought and evolution. The iconic image of a pig was chosen due to its many contradictory allusions: ignorance/intelligence; cleanliness/filth; greed/nobility etc and references to religious dogma and the cautionary writings of George Orwell.

All of the artwork was hand-printed using bespoke, hand carved blocks. To keep inline with this aesthetic, the typography was also hand printed (though it is a found antique font). A die-cut template was used to allow the CD to play a part in the constructed cover design, showing a small piglet in the belly of its mother. On removal of the CD, a human child can be seen in the piglet’s place.

Harvey Hartley

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