Cover Art & Merchandise

Cover Art & Merchandise

Role: Designer & Creative Strategist

Context: Visual systems for music-adjacent and lifestyle brands requiring strong narrative cohesion across physical and digital touchpoints.

Primary Goal: Create visually distinct cover art and merchandise systems that reinforce brand identity, support storytelling, and scale across platforms and products.

Challenge: Design artwork that could function simultaneously as cultural expression, commercial product, and brand signal—often under tight timelines and evolving creative direction.

The Approach

  • Developed concept-driven artwork rooted in artist identity, campaign themes, and audience context.

  • Designed cover art and merchandise graphics to function as a unified system across apparel, packaging, and digital promotion.

  • Balanced expressive visuals with production realities to ensure designs translated cleanly to print and physical goods.

The Outcome

  • Produced cohesive cover art and merchandise that strengthened brand recognition and supported campaign rollouts.

  • Created assets designed to scale across platforms while maintaining visual clarity and consistency.

Deliverables

  • Cover art and key visuals

  • Apparel and merchandise graphics

  • Production-ready print files and mockups

Akila K.’s ‘Hear Me Out’ album cover featuring a creative and bold visual concept with dynamic poses, microphones, and a vibrant studio setting, embodying self-expression and artistry.

AKila K

E. Nigma 

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