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Long-term artist direction, studio portraits and tour merch.

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WRKINSILENCE

[ MY.ROLE ]
Creative direction · photography · video direction

For about three to four years I developed the concepts, chose locations, styled the artist and directed photo and video, working around a mask and anonymous identity that already existed. The music was about grinding unseen, so I shot at night in industrial spaces under colored light.

WRKINSILENCE seated in a mask under orange light.
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Masked WRKINSILENCE portrait against a dark brick wall.
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WRKINSILENCE with hands raised beneath neon skull lights.
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Close portrait of masked WRKINSILENCE in orange light.
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WRKINSILENCE reclining beneath pink neon figures.
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Masked WRKINSILENCE portrait under red and yellow neon.
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WRKINSILENCE leaning forward against a brick wall.
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Seated WRKINSILENCE portrait with a shoe in the foreground.
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WRKINSILENCE in a cool-lit warehouse, with a vehicle behind him.

WRKINSILENCE · film 01

WRKINSILENCE seated on a red couch beneath purple and red neon lights.

WRKINSILENCE · film 02

[ OUTCOME ]: used across streaming platforms, social, videos and press. I also co-wrote and produced some of the tracks.

451

2019
[ MY.ROLE ]
Creative direction · photography · retouching

Portraits during his first US recording sessions at Warner Records. I shot in grainy monochrome to keep some mystery in the pictures.

451 artist page on Apple Music using the campaign portrait.
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451 artist page on Spotify using the campaign photography.
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Grainy monochrome portrait of 451 seated in the recording studio.
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Wide monochrome view of 451 and collaborators in the studio.
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Monochrome portrait of 451 with his hand over his face.
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451 photographed under blue-green studio light.
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Monochrome close portrait of 451 beside a studio microphone.
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451 beside a Warner Music Group wall sign.
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[ OUTCOME ]: used on his Apple Music and Spotify profiles and in press.

6LACK

2017
[ MY.ROLE ]
Merchandise design and production, with Ehsaan Mesghali of Mesghali Studios

Tour merch for FREE 6LACK, built around the existing logo and bear. We drew on 1990s rock-tour graphics and added kanji to the bear tee.

FREE 6LACK tour merchandise overview with tees, a cap, and hoodies.
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FREE 6LACK merchandise reference presentation with artist photographs.
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FREE 6LACK tour logotype and bear-mark variations.
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Black tee mockup with a red bear graphic and Japanese lettering.
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White tee mockup with a distorted portrait and red tour lettering.
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Black tee mockup with a monochrome illustrated figure and red accent.
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Black tee mockup with a purple and red illustrated tour graphic.
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Black tee mockup with a bear silhouette and yellow FREE 6LACK lettering.
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Black tee mockup with a red portrait and yellow linework.
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[ OUTCOME ]: produced and sold on the tour.

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