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While [[Trent Reznor]] is known for laboring over his music for years at a time, ''The Slip'' was written in a month and recorded in just three weeks, with mixing, mastering, and art taking one additional week.[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20120721032635/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?pagewanted=all] The album was originally intended to be an EP, but quickly grew to album length.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081204135401/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/article1497804.ece]

[[Image:Cieslewiczposter.png|thumb|Poster that inspired ''The Slip'''s album cover]]In a Patreon post[https://www.patreon.com/posts/62654005], Rob Sheridan explained the inspiration behind the album cover:<blockquote>''The Slip'''s cover was a direct homage to this 1982 (Roman) Cieslewicz poster (for a Paris exhibition on town planning, of all things): As soon as I showed it to Trent he was struck by it, and we wanted to create something similar for the cover. So the intent of the photo was very clear from the beginning, and that helped me choose the right tools to execute it with. I set up a black backdrop and a bright desk lamp (to get a hot, overexposed light source that would sharply fall off into shadow) in a back room during Lights In The Sky rehearsals in 2008. NIN keyboardist Alessandro Cortini stood in as our arm model, and I had Trent walk forwards into the frame and then had Alessandro physically grab Trent's shoulder and jerk him back slightly to stop him. This created the motion blur on Trent's face that communicated the action in the image, captured with a slow-ish shutter speed. We did a few takes, and I was able to let them go back to rehearsals after maybe fifteen minutes of shooting - that was all I needed to get the right raw materials. I found the perfect capture from the shoot, edited it in Photoshop, and then took it into Exposure, modifying the vintage B&W daguerreotype high contrast preset to give the photo the softness, heavy grain, and blown-out photocopy look we were inspired by in Cieslewicz's poster. From there, I added the broken red bar design element and the same worn paper texture used throughout ''The Slip'''s art to unify it.</blockquote>  Of the individual track artwork, Rob Sheridan went on to statestated: "For Nine Inch Nails' album, we created logos representing each song, and embedded them in the MP3s to give each song its own visual identity when played digitally. Each logo played upon the meaning or title of the song, sometimes overtly, sometimes very abstractly. A scribbled red line crossed into most of the images, struggling to find harmony with the shapes, but ultimately failing." In a Patreon Q&A session[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427], Sheridan was asked about the art for "Demon Seed" and he explained that it was "the end of the journey of the red line that moved through the artwork of that record, trying to make sense of the rigid forms, sometimes fighting them, before finally overtaking them. It was Trent's idea to have the line take over 'Demon Seed' so completely/aggressively. It tied in to the meaning behind the music, which isn't my place to discuss as TR tends to keep that stuff close to his chest."In a Twitter post, Sheridan explained that the track logos were inspired by De Stijl/Neoplasticism.[https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1389976605968134148]

The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached. According to a [http://sound.jp/hardlistening/interviews/modwheelmood2_1.html Japanese interview] with [[modwheelmood]], the hand on the cover of ''The Slip'' is that final page of Alessandro Cortini, while the shoulder is Reznor'sPDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin. Cortini also states that he did not actually play anything on the studio album, though his performances are included on the rehearsal DVD" This appears to be a typographical error. There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa. The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.

A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com. On July 16, 2008, Reznor posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.