The Art of Kiekebiche



Kiekebiche was the one and only designer of all the covers and image of Off from the start in 2007 till end 2013. Off wants to thank him again for all those beautiful images, involvement, time, creation and advices. Kiekebiche will be back again for more covers time to time. Meanwhile he is going back to what he does best: painting! We will miss him and wish him well!
This is a dedicated page  to remember all the existing covers + extra covers, never released covers and bonus you never saw!

When I started the label, my idea was to have a sort of series with a typical reminder or sort of gimmick that would be on all the covers. So Kiekebiche went on and designed a lot of different variations, some with obi (like on the Japanese cds), some with always a pic on the back, some with geometrical designs...
Here are some of them:




It quickly seemed that it would maybe be boring after the fifth release, so I decided to give total freedom to Kiekebiche, only retaining the idea of the pic of the artist on each cover.
Still, he worked on a few concept, but eventually arrived to the desired object.

OCD001 : Blaine L. Reininger / Glossolalia :




And the inner cover :


Still a first try from the very first project:






Still from the very first project:


And right after, another idea rejected by Don :



And the first try for the final idea of the cover:





The first project Kiekebiche did :




And the complete cover :







And the complete cover :


After the seventh release, I decided to go for a different format with only 2 pages.








Then we did the first promo single.

OPR001 : SLuG / Speed and Joy :





And the rejected first cover :


Next, was the second promo cd :



Following the release of the promo, Kiekebiche started to work on the cover for the album. That was a busy and difficult time as he did almost 10 different projects that were all rejected by Mai.



Some of the rejected covers were :











And the back and inner cover :



In 2008, I started a special Pierre Vervloesem Presents Series dedicated to all of his works and productions.
The first one was:









And the back:




This is a box containing 4 cds released at once, all produced and played by Pierre. 
It contains:
OPV003 : Codswallop / Grotesque


OPV004 : The Claude Zac Ensemble / SSSHHHTTTTT :


And OPV005 : John Koenig / John Koenig :




And the first try :




2011 saw the start of a new series called Off-Rat, a collaboration between Off and Rat Records.
The first release was:



As for Pierre who's sometime difficult to please, those were some of the rejected covers:






This one is a variation of the physical cd released by the OAR label (which received my permission to go on with the unreleased tracks from the Clinamen sessions). It is also catalogued as ODG008.


In 2009, I started a new ' digital only' series. Nervous Lovers was the first release:








This one was also made for Off and is completely different from the physical cd released on the Trace Recording label.




The first simple try was:








ODG008 is ORT003

































































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