illumine

The brief.

illumine doesn't release as an album — each track lands on SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Music as its own single, on its own timeline. The brief wasn't to design one cover, it was to design nine, released one at a time, that still read as the same artist every time one shows up in a feed or a playlist.

The approach.

Most of the set is built around a recurring motif — a glowing point that becomes a flower's center, a planet's ring, a vine's node, a starburst, a pulse of concentric rings. A few covers step outside that structure on purpose: You and I trades the glow for a more figurative two-circle symbol, Quiet Mint becomes a quiet botanical motif, and Sounds Outside the Box turns fully illustrative — a lit cabin in a forest at night. The system was built to flex per track without breaking the thread that ties the catalog together.

The outcome.

Nine covers, released across separate singles, that still function as one coherent body of work whenever someone lands on the artist page. Black and White, the most graphic and high-contrast of the set, works well as the lead image whenever a single cover needs to represent the whole project.

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