Shifty Milano Artwork


Artwork done for the music project known as Shifty Milano & His Orchestra, which is billed as “an ongoing project that blurs the lines of performance art, original music, graphic design, and fictional literature.”

The album cover, with its distinctive red and blue dots, was designed to be an obvious homage to a classic Louis Armstrong record made for the movie The Glenn Miller Story

While they're listed as being faded pages from a fictitious magazine entitled Syncopate, it was insisted that the design be similar to a real-life music magazine known as Metronome, in this case the layout and look from 1938.


"We want something that looks like an old newspaper clipping," they said. "And don't forget to make it look like an old newspaper clipping."

The background photos are restriction-free images from the Library of Congress. The dimensions were made for use in YouTube videos.

The same dimensions as above, this image was designed to be for use in a YouTube video for the song "The Ghost Train."

The final image with the newspaper clipping and magazine pages. It was used in one YouTube video but I'm not sure if it will make its appearance in any future videos.