Leaving Your Mark

Rush album cover designer Hugh Syme discusses the ideas behind Signals.

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Where did the idea for the Signals cover come from? When I got the album title, it was the probably the most intimidating singular word I could have got because it was so vast in possibilities. We ventured down the Marconi and Tesla radio signals route, and Morse Code and semaphore as well. Then I heard the song Subdivisions in the studio, and there was a sense of suburbia, with its perfect green lawns and its creepy underpinnings. And I was walking down [Toronto thoroughfare] Yorkville one day and I saw a fire hydrant and their mascot, a Dalmation. I thought, “Why don’t we have a dog sniffing fire hydrant?” It was about the idea of leaving your mark on a particular place. Did the band go for the idea…

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