MFA student's vinyl cover series garners major attention

Eshaan Sojatia ’24 MFA (visual communication design) captured second place in the Student Packaging category of PRINT Magazine’s annual PRINT Awards, which honors design work that embraces tradition and technology. 

The competition is juried by leading design figures from around the world. 

Sojatia’s second-place entry was a series of five vinyl record covers collectively titled “Dark Energy.” The project was made in Assistant Professor Anne Jordan’s Information Design course. 

“In order to show dark energy and other things in the universe, the project had to be done in black and white only,” Sojatia’s portfolio site description of the project reads. “I learned more about the strange world of dark energy through five cool album covers.

“Each cover does a job of delving into a different part of this cosmic mystery, from acceleration of the universe, cosmological constant, modified gravity theories, quintessence, to emergent gravity. The black-and-white color scheme was used as a metaphor for how mysterious and hard to pin down dark energy is.”

Other "Dark Energy" album covers

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