This submission for War Child Secret 7" 2025 illustrates a vinyl cover for 'Black Rain' by Keane. This design was exhibited in the NOW Gallery Grenwich, and received a Graphite Pencil for the D&AD New Blood Awards 2025.
The song communicates feelings of longing and uncertainty, through the metaphor of 'black rain', symbolising emotional struggles or a sense of being lost. My design illustrates the the focus of the song, 'Black Rain'. I used repeated lines in a grid that collapses in the center.
This communicated the idea of rain as a literal piece of imagery, but also uncovered a conceptual way of seeing the design. Having irregularly moving lines that communicate collapse or falling down links well to Keane's message in the song. The links to mental and emotional struggle, uncertainty, fragility, and vulnerability are all communicated through design.
This submission for War Child Secret 7" 2025 illustrates a vinyl cover for 'Black Rain' by Keane. This design was exhibited in the NOW Gallery Grenwich, and received a D&AD New Blood Graphite Pencil.
The song communicates feelings of longing and uncertainty, through the metaphor of 'black rain', symbolising emotional struggles or a sense of being lost. My design illustrates the the focus of the song, 'Black Rain'. I used repeated lines in a grid, but made them collapse in the center.
This communicated the idea of rain as a literal piece of imagery, but also uncovered a conceptual way of seeing the design. Having irregularly moving lines that communicate collapse or falling down links well to Keane's message in the song. The links to mental and emotional struggle, uncertainty, fragility, and vulnerability are all communicated through design.
Graphite Pencil Winner, D&AD New Blood 2025
Visual narrative
Conceptual design
D&AD New Blood Awards
Graphite Pencil Winner, 2025
Visual narrative
Conceptual design
