For the summer semester of 2018 at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin each student was given, at random, a musician, for whom we would develop an album cover and lyric booklet. The musician I pulled was Brendan Maclean, an Australian pop star, taking a deeper look onto his album funbang1.

For this project I explored the contrast between the innocent aesthetic generally found in pop culture, and Brendan Maclean's darker themed songs that touch upon gay and queer culture.  

For this, I settled on a leather harness, which would then be worn by random colourful objects. These items, however, when looked at as a group, would seem to belong to a kid; for example the balloon, corn flakes, or volleyball, which when wrapped by this harness create a disparity.

Cover and booklet photography and design by Ezequiel Hyon

Project supervision by Matthias Hübner

Exhibition pictures by Samuel Smelty

Typeface, Sporting Grotesque, by Lucas Le Bihan

and of course, special thanks to Brendan Maclean