Paul Sheppard is singer, songwriter, guitarist and performer with an Adult Contemporary style from various musical influences. The album art for "Smoke and Mirrors" was designed to reflect the title's commonly known idiom for deception or illusion, represented by an abstract background made of shattered glass in a hazy void. To offset this conceptual style, the fonts used for the title aimed to represent the words more literally through a predominant use of typography, i.e. "Smoke" looks like smoke and "Mirrors" looks like glass.