🎵 IT032: Cute Crush
✏️ Bobby Redmond
🗓 06.06.19
Bobby is a designer, illustrator and artist based in London.
What’s up Bobby, can you tell us a little bit about your tape and your song selections?
Heya Illustrated Tapes!
I wanted to do a playlist dedicated to cute crushes and the feeling of crushing on a dreamboat. Fun/sexually charged with a touch of butterflies in your stomach. The song lyrics definitely capture this - but i also tried to pick songs that either oozed and swayed with infatuation or bubbled with excitement.
How did you go about the artwork?
From the get-go I knew the imagery and symbols I wanted to include. I had visions of scrawling in a notebook and heartthrob posters in a teenage bedroom in mind. I wanted to use classic symbols and icons as the interest me like hearts and eyes. I had to include a hunky guy silhouette too as lot of my personal work focuses on the male body.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a93fa83032f40dda784da2160e13de66d69e06636a9812d3baca6b0c660cef6/illustrated-tapes-032_process.gif)
Proccess shots from Bobby’s mixtape artwork
I made a couple of different versions of the artwork. I tried monoprinting, painting, and digital composition which i liked but they were missing the cutesy factor. In the end I felt paper cut collage was the best fit as it tied into the notebook idea i’d been channeling.
What are your fave album covers, records with a great music and artwork combo, or musical projects with a visual component?
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cc33a1ee415b6ccc9368efb2be5ee6dab2f2d72f2d3957a7b88387831015cf7/donna-summer-four-seasons-of-love_600.jpg)
Four Seasons of Love – Donna Summer
1976, Casablanca
Art direction: Chris Worf
Design: Henry Vizcarra
Cover concept: Donna Summer, Joyce Bogart, Susan Munao
Photography: Mario Casilli
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7018f113b322632ede02d45bc76f15b1353f844333962987ee0c121ced6edc8e/minnie-riperton-adventures-in-paradise_600.jpg)
Adventures in Paradise – Minnie Riperton
1975, Epic Records
Design: Ron Corro
Photography: Kenneth McGowan
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb230d4d964e723cd1b0f47f5b793f202f3bf951e2d6c28514c9c5b020cd7baf/wild-cherry_600.jpg)
Wild Cherry – Wild Cherry
1976, Epic Records
Cover concept: Rob Rath
Photography: Frank Laffitte
The composition on these disco records! So beaut. For Donna I love a classic crescent moon and it suits the album perfectly as it’s wonderfully composed with a track for each season.
I’m maaad about anything Braulio Amado does - especially the recent bits he’s done for Róisín Murphy.
I’m maaad about anything Braulio Amado does - especially the recent bits he’s done for Róisín Murphy.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40112e5351ae07a4e50f36d7692a8bdcba8f30d7c8ddb1457803b1780b961901/620f2a14c17b0701ebac4b2c5ddfd2e7.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32543ab14283a556fe4ebfc521b7d02ba72fc1579e529f2fcbd9c9b303274419/roisin-murphy-innocence_600.jpg)
“All My Dreams” / “Innocence” – Róisín Murpy
2018, The Vinyl Factory
Artwork: Bráulio Amado
I also have always enjoyed Todd Terje’s artwork by Bendik Kaltenborn - I like when an artist works with the same artist for all their artwork.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0f3c2891f8658ab19e9158a227440f5b7cc282ea91b10ba9a12a3fc476c1a1e/todd-terje_600.jpg)
It’s Album Time – Todd Terje
2014, Olsen
Artwork: Bendik Kaltenborn
And finally some queer classics from Bowie/Keith Haring & Bronski Beat:
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4840833a71ff3c4829736fad4350b24c3505f3ab0ad533f2e1ce0e1aceaf55d/david-bowie-without-you-600.jpg)
Without You – David Bowie
1983, EMI America
Artwork: Keith Haring
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52d18ebff6c7edd2cca8bd826fc10d30cfe9fddfdd8c4a78a667be50aaab5a87/R-315433-1162760855.jpeg.jpg)
Hundreds & Thousands – Bronski Bear
1985, Forbidden Fruit
Design, artwork: Green Ink
Cake: Jane Suchodolski
What did you listen to growing up?
My family are all quite into music. My mother’s taste was Leonard Cohen/Meatloaf/Mary Black, my da’s was Eagles/Bowie while my brothers listened to Nirvana/Tool/Foo Fighters as teens. This all trickled into my forming taste while my sister and I were drawn to the Spice Girls / S Club 7 & Robbie Williams. So yeah - all over the place really.
What’s happening in your creative world at the moment?
My main ongoing project is my painting and drawing - It’s a personal exploration of sexuality and intimacy which I post on my instagram.
My day job is working as a graphic designer for Lovebox and Citadel festivals - this year we’ve been working on some really fun image collages with Lovebox so my animation skills are being put to the test which is great - always good to learn more software as it opens up creative doorways.
I'm also the illustrator for a poetry project, The Dancing Crows an mini booklet series of illustrated poems. Expect surreal illustrations with crows, disco balls & champagne.
I’m also trying to set up a casual drawing club (Draw Ring) with my long time collaborator Hannah Presdee - we go to each other’s house to drink and draw in a more relaxed setting than life drawing so we’re trying to step that up a bit and take it to the public.
Where can we find you?
︎ bobbyredmond.com
︎ bobsterbob
Thanks Bobby!
TRACKLIST
Frank Ocean - Forrest Gump / BROCKHAMPTON - SOMETHING ABOUT HIM / BROCKHAMPTON - SUMMER / Steve Lacy - C U Girl / Steve Monite - Only You / Aminé - Spice Girl / Charli XCX - Boys / Le Le - Breakfast / Troye Sivan - Bloom / Grimes - Pretty Dark (Demo) / Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts / Paula Abdul - Vibeology / Fern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You / Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (Disco Mix) / Donna Summer - I Feel Love ︎
︎ bobsterbob
Thanks Bobby!
TRACKLIST
Frank Ocean - Forrest Gump / BROCKHAMPTON - SOMETHING ABOUT HIM / BROCKHAMPTON - SUMMER / Steve Lacy - C U Girl / Steve Monite - Only You / Aminé - Spice Girl / Charli XCX - Boys / Le Le - Breakfast / Troye Sivan - Bloom / Grimes - Pretty Dark (Demo) / Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts / Paula Abdul - Vibeology / Fern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You / Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (Disco Mix) / Donna Summer - I Feel Love ︎