Editing Transatlanticism (section)

==Artwork==
The album's artwork was created by Seattle-based painter Adde Russell.<ref name="p4k"/> Russell knew Josh Rosenfeld, one of the founders of Barsuk Records, and McGerr had been her drum teacher. Rosenfeld asked the band if they would be interested in working with Russell, and they agreed. Russell began by producing a copious amount of artwork, in varying styles. "I had the expectation that either they'd find something in the mess that they liked or that the band would see how much work I'd done that they wouldn't have the heart to say no," she later remembered. The crow on the album cover was found by Russell in a hobby shop. Initially, it was a white styrofoam bird with red string. Harmer was particularly interested in this imagery, and continued her to keep working, and she eventually delivered the final album cover.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/interview-adde-russell |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190808165937/https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/interview-adde-russell |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2019-08-08 |title=Interview: Adde Russell|date=January 12, 2009|website=The405.com|access-date=August 20, 2019}}</ref>

Eric Gansworth, writing for ''At Length'' magazine, describes the album's inner sleeve:
{{cquote|The striking image on the front cover, a soft-focus painting of a [[New World blackbird|blackbird]] ensnared in some kind of blood-red string is simultaneously iconic and mysterious. The interior booklet reveals an abundance of representational painting, [[collage]] and assemblage, visually echoing the album's themes with repeated imagery of red ropy tangles (reminiscent of anatomical textbook illustrations of [[arteries]]), blown electrical fuses, a [[hummingbird|humming bird]], rendered in "[[outsider art]]" fashion, a spectral human figure ambiguously situated in roiling water, narrowly cropped photos of train cars, and other repeated elements, some at the abstract end of the spectrum and others falling closer to [[graphic design]]. A figurative human hand, reminiscent of [[Adam]]'s reaching out to [[God]] on [[Michelangelo]]'s [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]], is also tangled in red tendrils. Depending on how you hold the booklet, it either opens an expanse of several [[minimalist]] panel-spreads with superimposed lyrics, or is in sharp juxtaposition against the hummingbird, its needle-like bill replacing the hand of God.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://atlengthmag.com/music/albums-at-length-death-cab-for-cuties-transatlanticism-10th-anniversary-edition/|first=Eric|last=Gansworth|title=Albums At Length: Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism: 10th Anniversary Edition|work=At Length|access-date=August 20, 2019}}</ref>}}