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Girafot — No Entry for Elephants

GIRAFOT · ALBUM ART REDESIGN · 2023

No Entry for Elephants — the traveler's parcel edition

₪ 120 BLACK VINYL · PURPLE MANDALA LABEL · SMELLS LIKE INK

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THE CASSETTE — LET IT OUT
The cassette edition — back
THE BACK
01

The concept

GIRAFOT · BREAKDOWN

'No Entry for Elephants' was written on the road in India. The redesign turns the album into a package the traveler mailed to himself — from Delhi to Tel Aviv: postcards, stamps, found paper and handwriting, layered like memories arriving weeks late. The typography behaves like markings on a parcel, and every copy passes through real rubber stamps.

The wooden parcel covered in postal stamps and the band's seals

The parcel — a package you sent yourself from the road

The green vinyl sliding out of the stamped inner sleeve
Project info sheet — the concept in one page

The green vinyl, mid-slide · the project on one page

02

The stamps

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The band's faces were carved into rubber stamps — the identity is a kit of stamps, ink pads and postal marks that anyone can press onto the next surface.

The cow-man stamp illustration
The stamp sheet — the band's faces as postal seals

The cow-man · the seal sheet

03

The songs booklet

GIRAFOT · BREAKDOWN

Every song got a spread of its own — lyrics in handwriting, photographs from the road, found paper and the traveler's marginalia. Fourteen songs, fourteen postcards from the journey.

'No Entry for Elephants' — the title spread

אין כניסה לפילים — the title spread

'Avira Baba' spread
'Elim Avira' spread
'Bakayitz Hu Matzil' spread
'The Heart is Telescopic' spread
'Vacation in Hawaii' spread
'Cats' spread
'Power' spread
'Don't Know Why It Happens To Me' spread
'Moses' spread
'Pink Zebra' spread
'She's Not OK With Summer' spread
'What is Karma' spread
The Karma spread, full width on purple paper
The carton cover
The inner mockup
Booklet spread 31
The sacred cow journal spread
The stamped fabric albums side by side
Kali and Krishna postcards

The spreads · the covers · the postcards

04

The exhibition

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At the final show the album became a shop-table you could sit at — visitors flipped the albums, stamped their own covers and took a piece of the journal home.

The installation table with albums and stamps

The table, set for visitors

Hands pressing the band stamp onto a cover
A visitor stamping an album cover
Four stamped covers side by side
The Krishna postcard, framed
The band t-shirt with the cow print
The exhibition space

The ritual, mid-press · the merch · the room

Project
No Entry for Elephants — album art redesign
Scope
Concept · Packaging · Art direction · Installation
Client
Girafot (ג׳ירפות) · IL rock band
Year
2023