Matt de Jong
Graphic designer
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Matt de Jong is a graphic designer and art director who specializes in album art and other promotional materials for musicians. He has designed album covers for artists including Cat Power,[1][dead link] Clean Bandit, Deerhunter,[2] Future Islands,[3] Little Dragon,[4] The Maccabees,[1] Paolo Nutini,[2] Lee Ranaldo,[5] Ratking,[4] and Vampire Weekend.[2] de Jong is known for working with musicians who have a reputation for being "difficult".[2][citation not found][6][dead link] Lionel Skerratt, who co-founded Public Information Records, and Orlando Weeks, lead singer of The Maccabees, are childhood friends of de Jong's.[1][6]
Complex magazine named de Jong's cover of the Little Dragon album Nabuma Rubberband #19, and his cover of the Ratking album So It Goes #23, on its list of the 30 Best Album Covers of 2014.[4] His cover of the Future Islands album Singles was #3 in the Best Art Vinyl 2014 awards.[3]
He was nominated for a 2018 Grammy Award for his work on Mura Masa's self-titled debut album.
Matt de Jong is the creative director and founder of the Go De Jong London studio, focused on art directing, branding, typography and digital works.[7]
