Dark Entries Records celebrates 15th anniversary with graphic design zine

Dark Entries, the much-loved San Francisco-based label, is marking 15 years of operations by publishing a zine focused on its graphic design history.

The book, Dark Entries Collected Music Graphics, was compiled by label founder Josh Cheon and Eloise Shur-Juen Leigh, who has been responsible for much of the art direction on the label to date. It covers illustrations, logos and typography related to the label to give a breakdown of the visual direction that Dark Entries has taken up to now.

It also features an essay penned by US producer and performer Shawn O’Sullivan, as well as a breakdown of the more than 300 releases that have come out on the label to date.

Launched in 2009, Dark Entries was initially established as an imprint to put out reissues of under-the-radar, long-forgotten post-punk, disco and minimal synth records by acts such as Severed Heads, Patrick Cowley and Lena Platonos. More recently, the label has put out more original records by the likes of Sepehr, Bézier, Borusiade and Violet. In 2022, it launched its own record store. 

Revisit DJ Mag’s 2018 feature on Dark Entries here.