Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, LP, CD, Box Set, Website, Luaka Bop, 2022





Alhaji Waziri Oshomah’s aesthetic was a joy to work with. His original covers are superb and perfectly utilize classic fonts and simple graphics. In making Luaka Bop’s compilation World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah I enjoyed using more fonts than I normally do and a bright color palette, along with beautiful archival and some current photographs.

His box set features a cover that was an attempt to capture the vibe of his previous work. The covers and labels contained within were very severely damaged, so I remade all of the labels by painstakingly removing the type from some of them and otherwise completely digitizing the label—finding the font, laying it all out exact to the original, etc. The covers required extensive image correction to both remove the halftone pattern and to repair the myriad creases and wear marks. The box set includes a 48 page booklet that is an exact replica of a booklet his children made him for his birthday.