Tuff City Records

Album Design
Print Design
Production
Visual Systems

The Tuff City Records Vinyls showcases a range of album covers created to honor funk, soul, and hip hop. As lead designer, I designed album covers, developed visual systems for record releases, and managed production. Each project was design balanced archival references with fresh, modern visual language.

Funky Funky New Orleans 7

This album cover draws visual inspiration from soulful rhythm of 1970s America. The cover features archival photography layered with bold, gradient typography that reflects the energy of the music. The layout was designed to echos the genre's grit while remaining readable.

50 Years of Hip Hop Anthology

Using color and vintage photographs to seam together five decades of influence, the design showcases a variety of artists while employing the structure of traditional educational music anthologies.

© Caroline Matossian