Diogo Rodrigues

Sao Paulo  Brazil

Creative
Art Director
& Graphic
Designer


Work    

  1. Black Characters
  2. Paramount Soup
  3. Chuvisco
  4. Resiliences
  5. Narrated Website
  6. Taste it your way
  7. Brazzzoom



2023
Meyot





Disc cover and visual concept for the band's new album
photography
design
music & entertainment
art direction


Paramount Soup



Meyot is a brazilian Band formed by Arthur Montenegro and Giuliam Uchima. In their first full studio album, they play about modern life, disconnection with the outer world, boredom, the role of labor, the feeling of non belonging and even supremacist attacks which dominate the politic clash. 

When we first talked about how they vizualized this journey, three main topics kept raising conversations: the disc could represent a white elephant in the room, the songs had iridescent tones and the attitude of the lyrics could portrait a kind of bluff. 


My role:
Concept / Art Direction / DesignConcept/AD/Designer: Claudio Junior
Sculpture: Marcelo Onuki Maffei
Symbology: Breno Bitencourt
Photo: Dieson Morais
Make-up: Henrique Diego
PR: Build Up Media
Record Label: Eu Te Amo Records
Distribution: Ingrooves Brasil
Communication: Evelyn Nogueira

All songs composed by: Arthur Montenegro, Giuliam Uchima and Lucas Berredo
Production: Gabriel Assad
Mixing: Thiago Baggio
Mastering: Arthur Joly
Voice: Arthur Montenegro, Lucas Berredo
Eletric Guitar: Lucas Berredo, Arthur Montenegro
Bass: Giuliam Uchima
Synths: Lucas Berredo
Organ: Lucas Berredo
Theremin: Giuliam Uchima
Metals: Lucas Melifona
Acoustic Guitar: Lucas Berredo
Drums: Luca Acquaviva

Why this shape?
The spiral is a shape that represents the materialization of life, along the lines of the Golden ratio and Fibonacci found in nature.

This stylized symbol is a way of interpreting paramount soup concepts in addition to reinforcing the depth of the album’s searches.

Furthermore, the aggressive and pointed aesthetics of the finishes represent the discomfort of the work’s theme,
the discomfort of not being an easy-to-absorb material.


Why bismuth?
Bismuth is a metal found in nature.

He is pratically immortal. For example, it takes longer than the age of the universe to deteriorate. It is a metal that, during the melting process, releases this iridescent crystal that symbolizes bluff.

For this to happen, heat is required, which creates a beautiful relationship with the paramount soup.

We wanted to bring something more organic to this process and thus bring a certain strangeness.

The process

Since the symbol was decided we agreed to follow an uncertain but promising path: to sculpt this shape from scratch and then portrait it searching for it's place. Not only the final visual of the piece was a mistery because of the chaotic way cristals form on the liquid state of bismuth, but also the layout we took to the chosen location for the shooting could be the cover or half the way to it.

From this process, two images were picked up and used by the band as singles before the album launch. Below you can see a small selection of how the visual was born and adapted until the final result.






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