Deluxe box set edition of Peter Gabriel I/O - presented in a foil-blocked, clamshell box, containing Bright-Side and Dark-Side LPs in bespoke sleeves, across 4 pieces of black vinyl.
Bright-Side and Dark-Side mixes on CD, plus Blu-ray disc of In-Side Mixes (Dolby Atmos) with 24/96 versions of the Bright-Side and Dark-Side stereo mixes, housed within a 56-page casebound book of expanded liner notes - Peter Gabriel discussing each track, accompanied by artwork and insights from visual artists Ai Weiwei, Nick Cave, Olafur Eliasson, Henry Hudson, Annette Messager, Antony Micallef, David Moreno, Cornelia Parker, Megan Rooney, Tim Shaw, David Spriggs and Barthélémy Toguo.
Expanded cover art poster, and i/o bookmark download code.
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The grey uncoated box cover shows an 8-bit impression of Peters eye, patiently (and painfully) created from small squares then foil-blocked to the box lid with Kurz Light Line Laser foil, which appears silver but reflects light in all colours of the spectrum. The metal-die itself was a thing to behold, incredibly complicated tooling which pushed the limits of what a stamp this big is capable of - It was touch and go as to whether the design would hold, fortunately it did.
The box contains four LPs, each record sleeve printed inside and out with neon Pantone inks, created to clash and harmonise, work separately and together; the covers showing an extreme close-up of Peter’s eye. A 56-page case-bound book, full colour plus one spot neon Pantone ink throughout, with bookmark download card and 3xdiscs (neon inks again) secured in book-end pockets. Also poster of expanded I/O sleeve photograph by Nadav Kander. The box was wrapped with an obi-band in yet another neon printed ink.
The idea was to create a design that both argued and agreed, clashed and complimented, opposites working together, reflecting many of the themes/songs of I/O. From the very beginning I wanted to use bright colours, in my opinion its a very positive ‘light exuding’ album. I contrasted colours and textures throughout to give off that energy.
Each element being ‘just a part of everything’
