Influenced by school textbooks and the rigid design grid of Penguin and Pelican paperback books, Ghost Box records and CDs were always intended to look and sound like artefacts from a parallel world, familiar, elegant, but somehow "wrong".
Influenced by educational materials and the structured layout of Penguin and Pelican books, Ghost Box records and CDs aimed to present themselves as items from an alternate universe, appearing both recognizable and refined but with a sense of being "off" or unusual.