Editing Signals (Rush album) (section)

==Artwork==
The sleeve was designed by [[Hugh Syme]], who is credited with its concept, direction, and graphics, with photography from Deborah Samuel. Syme based his design upon receiving merely the album's title, and recalled a "great deal of trouble" in a cover that he and the group were satisfied with. "I decided that, with such a phenomenally important word with the kind of potency it potentially had, to go with something really dumb, really inane".<ref name=syme1983/> He noted, however, that the cover still tied into the meaning of some of the songs on the album, in particular "Chemistry".<ref name=syme1983/> The final concept came out from the result of several failed ideas, including one that Syme devised which would have involved Rush hooked up to [[electroencephalography]] machines as they played in the studio and a snapshot of their heartbeats and brain waves taken during a performance.<ref name=symebillboard/>

The front photograph depicts a [[Dalmatian (dog)|Dalmatian]] dog sniffing a red fire hydrant on a green lawn.<ref name=syme1983>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19830320creem.htm |title=From Brainwaves to Tidal Waves: The Story Behind Rush's Album Covers |magazine=Creem Close-Up |first=Jeffrey |last=Morgan |date=Spring 1983 |access-date=July 8, 2018 |archive-date=June 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624202328/http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19830320creem.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=symebillboard>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6613236/rush-hugh-syme-art-of-rush-book-album-covers-neil-peart-foreword-exclusive |title=Rush Art Director Hugh Syme on the Stories Behind the Band's Iconic Album Covers and His New Book 'Art of Rush': Exclusive |magazine=Billboard |first=Gary |last=Graff |date=July 1, 2015 |access-date=July 8, 2018 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701105751/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6613236/rush-hugh-syme-art-of-rush-book-album-covers-neil-peart-foreword-exclusive |url-status=live }}</ref> Samuel shot the image on the rooftop of her studio. The lawn is a piece of AstroTurf, and the hydrant was rented from Toronto and repainted the desired colour for the cover. She recalled a search to find a Dalmatian who could sniff on command, and placed dog biscuits underneath the hydrant multiple times to get the final shot.<ref name=samuel>{{cite web |url=http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20121109durstonphoto.htm |title=Exit Stage Left – Deborah Samuel Interview |publisher=Durston Photography |first=Rob |last=Durston |date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=July 8, 2018 |archive-date=July 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708162435/http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20121109durstonphoto.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The back cover is a pretend blueprint of a neighbourhood with what Lee described as "make believe subdivisions",<ref name=getsuccess/> detailing Warren Cromartie Secondary School, a fictional school named after baseball player [[Warren Cromartie]]. He and the [[Montreal Expos]] are thanked in the album's liner notes.<ref name=LPnotes/> Syme considered the back cover "a little subtle, perhaps over-indulgent".<ref name=syme1983/>