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Art director Hugh Syme talks to UCR about the prog-rock trio's playful cover to the 1989 LP.
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Art director Hugh Syme talks to UCR about the prog-rock trio's playful cover to the 1989 LP.
Art director Hugh Syme talks to UCR about the prog-rock trio's playful cover to the 1989 LP.
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Roll the Bones are loosely themed around the idea of "chance," and art director Hugh Syme expanded on that broad concept with his cover for Rush's 1991 LP. His logical starting point was a game of chance: dice. But he twisted the album's titular phrase into a more unsettling, if bleakly humorous, image. "'Bones' was slang for dice because dice are made of ivory," he tells UCR. "I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of youthful innocence and inevitable mortality, like having a kid playing kick the can — but with a human skull." The cover shows that young boy, leg extended, st...