Adam suggested that my poster designs could be re-appropriated into album artwork for Gustav Holst's planet suite. I really liked this idea so decided I should mock up my images on vinyl sleeves to see how they'd look.
I went to the website Discogs to look through their database of classical records and their sleeve artwork. I found that boxing the illustrations/artwork was a recurring feature in a lot of classical releases, even a Holst Planets one. This is convenient since it means my existing designs should translate just fine to the format.
Holst based his compositions on the astrological characters of the planets rather than physical, so even though my illustrations are representative of the planets' surfaces, I added the astrological symbol on the album artwork in order to uphold this element of the compositions' creation.
The sleeves are shown in the order in which the pieces are played in the whole movement, which is not the same as their distance from the sun.
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