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Vangelis’ soundtrack for the film Blade Runner is a sonic blockbuster. The legendary score is rightfully considered a pioneering ambient electronic masterpiece that perfectly mirrors the film’s dark, dystopian atmosphere. ERC have collaborated with Zip Design to create a unique artefact that references the Blade Runner world, rather than a conventional record sleeve.

The main out box references a container in Hannibal Chew’s eye workshop, We chose the green glow edge Perspex as it also a neon effect, which again mirrors all the neon signs through out the Blade Runner world, there are most Easter eggs to be found in the engravings on the underneath of the box. Once you open the box you’re presented with a 12” size booklet, this is printed on GF Smith Peregrina Majestic paper which has a metallic quality, adding a different depth to the film stills. The film still are all presented with white boarders which is another reference to the collections of photos used as memory motives in the movie. The booklet is sewn with a red thread as an ascent colour to red Kanji on the outer box.

There are custom shaped foam discs which hold the vinyls in place. Each vinyl is housed in a bespoke inner sleeve in Ebony Colorplan with a clear foiled graphic both sides that again is a reference to a navigation screen inside on of the police Spinners.

Once the records are removed from the box, it reveals the brass spindle at the centre of a black marbled Jesmonite tile. The tile again draws influence from the interior of Deckard’s apartment - which in turn is influenced by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House in LA. Everything inside the main box is dark to amplify the neon in the glow edge.

Working in collaboration with ERC, we wanted every aspect of this package to have attention to detail as Fans of both the film and the film score. Every fan will have their own interpretation of what this artefact should be, this was ours and it has to be up there as a dream job.