Jazzybelle
Vinyl album reissue series
Client: Sounds Like Now
Jazzybelle is a record label specializing in high quality vinyl reissues of rare jazz-oriented records with a focus on Brazilian artists and bands.
The objective is the faithful reproduction of the original industrial object. To avoid falling into a “faux-vintage” cliché - artifacts of age, such as paper yellowing or physical wear are excluded, while strictly preserving chromatic tints inherent to the original vintage film stocks and development techniques. This ensures the artwork is restored to its “day-one” state, optimized for modern high-spec manufacturing.
To meet modern production standards from 20th-century physical sources, I employ a multi-stage AI pipeline:
Adaptive restoration: Depending on the condition of the sourced original artwork, I utilize AI for high-fidelity upscaling, denoising, and generative in-painting to reconstruct lost details.
Technological preservation: The process acts as a bridge between archival scans and production-ready assets, maintaining the organic “soul” of the album’s era while ensuring technical clarity.
AI-assisted restauration
The signature light pink obi strip functions as an external information layer, allowing the restored artwork to remain free of modern commercial clutter. By consolidating the artist biography, press commentary, and barcoding on this removable vertical element, we create a consistent visual anchor for the collection while preserving the status of the primary sleeve.
Obi strips
To solve the conflict between archival fidelity and legal compliance, I engineered a “ring branding” system. This modular circular layout scales the original vintage label artwork toward the center, creating a dedicated outer perimeter for contemporary branding and copyright specifications. This ensures the historical design remains uncompromised and fully legible within its own space.
Disc label architecture
Logo design
Graphic heritage
The Jazzybelle mark references the geometry of mid-century jazz identities. The lowercase “b” is a deliberate homage to the 1970s-era Blue Note monogram, anchoring the label in jazz history.