Brief: We need art for our next album and would like something with a nod to Frida (Kahlo) or a 'Latino Vibe'. Clean, graphic and colorful.
Solution: After interviewing the band members, I discovered that many of the album’s songs focus on themes of personal deception and how people often blind themselves to uncomfortable truths. For the illustration, I aimed to create a design that is both simple and clean, while conveying the idea of "covering up" or distorting reality to deny the truth. Drawing inspiration from the floral motifs and surrealism of Frida Kahlo’s work and the minimalism of the Bauhaus movement, I began with photographs of flowers arranged as a crown over a stylized face. However, rather than a traditional crown, the flowers were reimagined as a blindfold—a symbol of dressing up or concealing the ugliness of self-deception.
