Album cover and tour identity for Trem, a musical project by Brazilian musician Lucas Lanne: an album about being a passenger in your own life.
Category:
Album Cover, Tour Identity
Client:
Lucas Lanne
Location:
Anápolis, Brazil
Where type meets track.
Cover design for trem, an EP by musician Lucas Lanne. The challenge was to translate into a single typographic cover the essence of an artist who is quiet in everyday life but magnetic on stage - and of an album that stitches together fragments of life across states, loves, and roads.
Choosing the right voice.
Starting from conversations with the musician and a reference he brought (the cover of Caetano Veloso's "Cê") the decision was to go fully typographic: simple, but striking.
The primary typeface, NSW01, was chosen because it appears modular at first glance, then reveals itself full of subtle details, mirroring Lucas's duality.
As a secondary face, GT Pressura brought the analog texture of ink under pressure, evoking the stamps found on crates and train tickets.
All aboard.
The result is a vibrant yellow cover with [TREM] in bold condensed letters that bleed past the edges - like stories that can't be contained in a single place.
Typography does all the heavy lifting: it communicates personality, movement, and belonging without a single image.
The project also includes documentary photography of the artist, shot by me, which rounds out the EP's visual universe.
