I’ve known about these bands for quite a while now, but Splashdown’s recent reappearance brought them to the fore again. Two months later, I figure I should check them out.

Let me back up a bit. If you’ve been to Splashdown’s MySpace page (have you yet?), you’ll notice that they’re a bit exclusive with their “top” friends. Basically, each one of the original band members went on to start their own project(s), and those are the four bands shown on their page.

While I will always go for more of Melissa Kaplan’s unique vocal stylings, I’m actually digging one of Kasson Crooker’s side projects, Symbion Project.

I’m also a big fan of the cover artwork for SP’s Immortal Game album… it takes me back to the keyform exercise in CDF. Who remembers it? The keyform exercise? Yeah…? Our first dive into the world of design? I do.

You want us to do what? Put these key… silhouettes… in a box? And that’s design? Are you quite sure?

Here’s me being creative with keyforms. Good times.

Anyway, right, the Symbion Project cover art. I like the way they use positive and negative space to spell out SP with the shapes. Check it out:

I wish there were a job that would let me design funky typographical cover art like that all day. The inspiration is a bit random at times, but it’s quite fun!