"Scratch" Kimura Kaela
Date
Credits
- Kimura Kaela Musician
- central67 2 Art Director
- central67 2 Designer
- Columbia Music Entertainment Production Company
- Hiroshi Nomura Photographer
Format
- Album Art 514
Typefaces
Media
- paper 1701
Techniques
- silk-screen 27
- offset lithography 559
- illustration 213
- printing 669
Locations Made
- Japan 376
It was the first album released by Kimura Kaela that topped the Oricon Albums Chart. The entirety of the CD from the cover, the lyrics pages, and the CD itself was designed by CENTRAL67. It is a design firm established in 1995 by Yutaka Kimura. The design on the CD Album Cover is a picture of the artist playing the piano. It is interesting as the designer hints that there will be a lot of piano in the album with it being on the side, which can be seen even with the cover sleeve on as it is intentionally cut. Additionally, the typeface gives a feeling of mysticism and fantasy with the overly decorated typeface and the characters like the fairy and the bear drinking tea. It is also interesting to note that on the front of the lyrics page, the artist's name “KAELA” has different fonts for each character, most of them being various geometrical shapes, except for the K which follows a more gothic font, and the L shows a sans serif.
