Broke with Expensive Taste

Broke with Expensive Taste

A multi-format visual campaign inspired by sound, persona, and intensity.

A conceptual album campaign developed for the highly energetic and chaotic album by Azealia Banks. I created a multi-format visual system that translates the album’s genre-blending sound and outspoken persona into an expressive world.

Packaging Design

Merchandise Design

Music

The Problem

The album blends hip-hop, house, rap, and experimental influences, resisting a single genre or identity. The challenge was creating a cohesive visual campaign that captured this intensity without oversimplifying it.

The album blends hip-hop, house, rap, and experimental influences, resisting a single genre or identity. The challenge was creating a cohesive visual campaign that captured this intensity without oversimplifying it.

The Process

I analyzed the album’s sound, lyrics, and cultural context to identify key qualities like energy, confidence, wit, and chaos. Through mind mapping, sketching, and moodboarding, I explored how rhythm and attitude could be expressed through typography, collage, and contrast.

I analyzed the album’s sound, lyrics, and cultural context to identify key qualities like energy, confidence, wit, and chaos. Through mind mapping, sketching, and moodboarding, I explored how rhythm and attitude could be expressed through typography, collage, and contrast.

The Solution

The final campaign uses bold yellow-and-black contrast inspired by caution tape, layered imagery, and mixed typography with different fonts referencing various music genres to mirror the album’s eclectic nature. Each track was reimagined as a tarot card, extending the system across vinyl packaging, merchandise, digital visualizers, and billboards.

The final campaign uses bold yellow-and-black contrast inspired by caution tape, layered imagery, and mixed typography with different fonts referencing various music genres to mirror the album’s eclectic nature. Each track was reimagined as a tarot card, extending the system across vinyl packaging, merchandise, digital visualizers, and billboards.

Reflection

This project showed how controlled chaos can become a unifying design strategy when guided by a clear concept. With more time, I would think of more marketing and advertising concepts.

This project showed how controlled chaos can become a unifying design strategy when guided by a clear concept. With more time, I would think of more marketing and advertising concepts.

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CONTENTS

Project Overview

The Problem

The Process

The Solution

Reflection

CONCEPTUAL

DESIGN