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Bakoom Studio turns to hieroglyphics for its striking Sense Sal music designs

Barcelona-based Bakoom Studio has made the most of just yellow and black in its art direction for the music group Sense Sal.

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Two versions of Bakoom Studio's geometric design for Sense Sal featuring yellow and black hieroglyphic-style symbols, objects and figures arranged in grid patterns

"They wanted to break with their old image and create a new personal graphic language," says the studio, which created designs used across everything from the group's website to CD designs, tote bags, records and more.

"We started asking them to select a series of words, concepts, phrases that appear in their songs and titles too," the studio explains. "From these words we created a series of elements, objects and geometric figures that construct them, creating a universe with a strong symbolism for all of them."

The geometric illustrations were created so that they fit together in a way that creates "an orderly disorder."

Depending on the application, the elements are ordered in different formats and patterns. This means the various hieroglyphics can subtly hint at the contents of individual songs.

Bakoom Studio's yellow and black geometric designs for Sense Sal spread across overlapping CD covers featuring abstract symbols and hieroglyphic-style illustrations
CD case for Sense Sal featuring black disc with yellow geometric symbols, eyes and planets on mustard-yellow background by Bakoom Studio
Three CD or album covers featuring geometric line illustrations in yellow and black, with stylised symbols representing concepts from Sense Sal's music
Black tote bag with yellow geometric illustrations and symbolic icons arranged in a scattered pattern, including eyes, moons, triangles, circles and abstract shapes
Yellow and black geometric and symbolic illustrations alongside a black CD cover design featuring a stylised tower with concentric circles and diamond shapes in gold lines
Bright yellow square featuring black geometric shapes and symbols arranged in a grid pattern, including eyes, moons, hearts, wavy lines and abstract forms, with "SENSE SAL" text in the bottom right corner
Yellow tote bag with geometric and symbolic black illustrations arranged to form a unified graphic language for Sense Sal
Repeating yellow and black pattern of geometric symbols including eyes, planets, crosses, diamonds and plant stems created by Bakoom Studio for Sense Sal
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