Nord Sound

Record label — 2026

Client: Nord Sound · Role: Label identity, sleeve system · Output: Identity, 12 sleeves, catalogue site

One sleeve system, twelve records, no two alike. Nord releases exactly twelve records a year, so the identity is a calendar: each sleeve's grid rotates one step further round a common axis, and a full year of releases shelved together completes the revolution.

Typography is set in a single weight at a single size across every release — the only variables are the grid angle and the ink, mixed per record from a chart that maps tempo to warmth.

The catalogue site plays the same game in reverse: hovering a record tilts the whole page to that release's angle, so browsing the discography feels like turning the year in your hands.

"Our shelf finally looks like our roster sounds." — label founder