"Make something amazing!"
Once in a while you meet a client that gives you full freedom to make something amazing. To be honest - that's why we're designers after all - to be able to make amazing things! Well, this was one of those projects. French producer-duo The Noisy Freaks reached out to us to design an album cover for their new 2015 EP, titled The Sixth Sense.
Visible Audio
Designing artwork for music is a bit like translating, from audio to visual. After listening to The Noisy Freaks' new EP we heard in the music that they have really developed their own sound, their own musical world. Once we realised that, we decided 3D design would be the best way to go with this project, so we contacted Yan Paul from Doublemen, our favourite 3D-guy. We started off sketching a fantasy world:
Collaborating with other disciplines
Working with other disciplines inspires us to think outside of our own comfort zone, and innovate – create exciting new things! Working with a 3D designer like Yan Paul gave us the oppertunity to do exactly that. We both agreed that the fantasy 3d world we had come up with was cool, but it wasn’t ‘awesome’ yet.. That’s when we decided to take it up a notch: We decided to use the audio-waveform (from the new EP) as a ‘skin’ for our 3D shape.
Playing around
Although the briefing told us to design a fantasy world, we’ve tried different shapes like Tornado, Donut, Globe and Blob. Just to see what would happen. This gave us some exciting results:
Final
Below you can see the final album artwork. Featuring the complete album visualised in 3D. We hope you like it! We are going to follow this design up and improve (even animate!) for a next release.
Full HR Album Cover
Check out The Noisy Freaks:
More Hands? Follow us!
