sarah alvarez / salvarez


sarah alvarez is someone with a habit of looking and a knack for seeing. They’ve worked in and around the music and video game industries for the last five years, with a consistent focus on indie labels, DIY, and smaller creatives.

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salvarez (b. 1998, New Jersey, US) holds an MFA from the University of Missouri and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. They work mainly with digital and physical assemblage, and concern themself with DIY . to map the relationships between dispersion, recursion, and diaspora in a post-Internet world.

Ekko Astral - pink balloons ART DIRECTION + PACKAGING DESIGN

Ekko Astral - pink balloons

ART DIRECTION + PACKAGING DESIGN

 Released in 2024
 Released by Topshelf Records
 Cover art by 
 Photography by
 Written contributions from Ari Drennen
Layout design for the physical issue of the band’s first LP on vinyl and cassette. My work on this involved some photo bashing, illustration, and typesetting.


We were ever-so interested in capturing the magic trapped at the intersection of budding Internet aesthetics, riot grrrl zine cultures, and the critical eye of the post-Dischord Records D.C. punk scene. My “illustrating” and “photobashing” for this project consisted mostly of resurrecting long-dead fancy font generators from the Internet Archive, scouring One Terobyte of Kilobyte Age and Tumblr for .gifs, and lazily cutting up photographs on Photoshop.

I totally ripped off risograph and laser copier zine aesthetics here - shout to out to all my risographers and ziners.



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