Twenty five years of experience in illustration and web design for the music industry and artists. Websites or album covers — I’ve got you covered!
BRANDING
Make your music visible!
Illustrations
Album covers and booklet illustrations, adapted and modified for other media such as websites and social media.
Package layouts
CD, vinyl or other package layouts. Print-ready files based on my illustrations or artwork provided by the client.
Websites
Basic WordPress-based websites with custom graphics, either newly built or developed further from existing sites.
About me
I am a designer from Helsinki, Finland. For the last 25 years I’ve done various creative work, mainly for the music industry and urban artists.
This includes album artwork, illustrations, shirt designs and web sites for various bands, labels and artists.
Even though I work as a graphic or a web designer, my main focus still lies on my artistic endeavours. That means painting and promoting graffiti: both murals as well as smaller scale productions, canvases and related publications.
Marko Saarelainen
artist & Designer
LORD K. PHILIPSON, The Project Hate MCMXCIX
“We don’t know how Marko does his magic, but we are very happy to have this man’s work on our stuff.”
News
Recent updates and various thoughts on different subjects. Topics related to web technologies, graphic design and music industry.
Lähiradio website
Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a complete redesign of the website for Lähiradio,[…]
Time to update?
I’ve been the webmaster for The Project Hate MCMXCIX since 2001 — back when that meant hand-coding HTML and[…]
Change in clientele
I haven’t worked extensively on web design or album artwork for the music industry in recent years — the[…]
Streaming services and design work
I’ve been designing visuals for CDs and vinyl releases for over twenty years, though less so in the past[…]
An ode to music
Can graffiti be combined with heavy metal? I think so! My online art project, which is now published, does exactly this.
Rap artists, death metal bands, small local companies, vocal coaches, graffiti writers…
the common denominator being creativity.
using WordPress and