Title : Leon of Athens – ‘Xenos’
Year : 2018
Client : EMI Music
Services : Art Direction,
Campaign,
Packaging,
Digital
Leon of Athens is a Greek-born indie pop star who is now based in London. His new album, entitled ‘Xenos’ (foreigner) features 11 songs echoing the feeling of being a foreigner, a stranger to a new country as well as to yourself. This eclectic spirit was important to convey visually in the artwork, as well as portraying a strong sense of the artist’s personality. The fragmented nature of the market makes it essential the concept engages across wide variety of formats – print to digital – to create an integrated release and a holistic visual universe. Our solution takes its inspiration from Skype and long distance relationships and references the need for communication with our external as well as our internal worlds. The album packaging consists of a sleeve with a cut-out set of multiple Skype windows through which one can see the inner cover of the cd-case with the artist’s face and another Skype window, which shows a cut-out part of the same face.
Ahead of Leon of Athens’ album release, we also designed a three-single promotional campaign and a website in order to set the conceptual and visual tone, teasing each single through a Skype window.