Merging two realms of art— one visual and one auditory— demanded extensive research before preliminary sketches could be executed. Countless hours were spent listening to Gregory Alan Isakov’s The Weatherman album, reading lyrics, developing fitting iconography, and building up an identity for the album through color palette and typeface combinations. Isakov’s sound presents themes of longing, a search for home, and the duality of love given vs. love not accepted, messages echoed in my design. For the album sleeve, I made a frosted glass effect of an Amsterdam landscape (a location referenced in one of the songs), and a photograph of a room left empty save for two uninhabited chairs looking out an open window. Use of the open window symbolism fulfills the representation of yearning for a certain experience or a certain person, while also being trapped behind the barrier of a current situation, as well as achieving the sense of duality. In the vinyl labels, I utilized inclusion of color to contrast the black and white sleeve. The visual imagery of a windmill reflects the agricultural, organic references or metaphors Isakov writes, but also a whispered comment on his personal connection to horticulture.