Amon Tobin ‘Verbal’

  • RELEASED: 30 Sept 2002
  • FORMAT: 12″ / CDS
  • LABEL: NINJA TUNE
  • CAT No.: ZEN12118 / ZENCDS118
  • DESIGN: Openmind & Alex Rutterford
  • SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Different covers for Euro and US releases
  • EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune page / BUY

For this single I made 3 completely different overall designs before Amon gave approval. The first was a distorted version of a famous rapper who was sampled in the song, the second was an abstract image with tramlines that I had photographed in Switzerland but neither of these were up to scratch. I was nearly at the end of my tether when showing him the 3rd ‘Gundam’ version but he loved it and it’s one of my favourite pieces of work.

I used some of this unpublished work (the 2nd version) for an exhibition called Versus I took part in at Parco in Tokyo where one image was made into a huge banner and part of the design was made into an exclusive Amon T-shirt.