Project: Momus -- Otto Spooky

Client: Analog Baroque /

Cherry Red (UK) / Darla (US)

Date: February 2005

Designer: James Goggin

Design assistance: Julia Gorostidi

I first came into contact with Momus when commissioning him to update his classic ‘Metaphysical Masochism Of The Capitalist Creative’ essay for print in Dot Dot Dot magazine. Although long a fan of the writing published on his site and, increasingly, in the design media, I only had a peripheral awareness of his ‘real’ output: the music. This was remedied by Momus himself during a visit to my studio in London, where he asked me to design the sleeve for his next album.

The conception of ‘Otto Spooky’ was documented in detail on Momus' Click Opera online journal. His research and travels, both actual and virtual, constituted a kind of productive yet rambling flânerie -- ‘disorienteering’, as he called it. The cover naturally became a meandering path, stuck in an infinite loop and assembled in a bricolage construction of lyric references, cables, tubes and packing tape.

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