“I Can’t Find the Edges of You”
Client: Citizens
Creative Direction // Album Cover Design + Packaging // Photography // Film Director // Stop Motion // Merch Design & Visual World Building
Overview
I Can’t Find the Edges of You is a studio album rooted in intimacy, surrender, and emotional depth. The creative challenge was to visualize something intentionally undefined—to build a world where form, movement, and texture felt fluid rather than fixed.
I led the creative direction across visual, physical, and motion formats, shaping a cohesive language that mirrored the album’s sense of closeness and emotional immersion.
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The Idea
The concept centered on limitlessness and vulnerability—the feeling of being unable to separate oneself from love, faith, or presence. Visually, this translated into softened boundaries, abstract movement, and imagery that resisted clarity or sharp definition.
The guiding principle was simple:
If it feels contained, it isn’t honest.
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Creative Direction
I developed the overarching creative vision and directed how the album’s themes translated across mediums, ensuring emotional consistency from still imagery to motion and physical artifacts.
Direction included:
• Defining a fluid visual system without rigid edges
• Establishing tone through motion, texture, and pacing
• Translating emotional abstraction into tangible design
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Execution
Album Cover & Packaging
The cover and packaging were designed as tactile expressions of intimacy—favoring softness, subtlety, and atmosphere. Layouts avoided hard structure, allowing imagery and space to feel unresolved and open-ended.
Photography
Photography was directed to feel close and immersive. Focus, framing, and light were used to dissolve distance, creating images that felt more sensed than observed.
Film Direction & Stop Motion
Film content expanded the album’s emotional language through movement and rhythm. Stop-motion techniques introduced fragility and imperfection, reinforcing the human presence within the work. Motion prioritized feeling over narrative clarity.
Merch Design
Merchandise extended the album’s visual identity into wearable form—designed as quiet statements rather than overt graphics. Each piece functioned as an extension of the album’s emotional atmosphere.
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Role
Creative Director / Film Director
• Concept & visual strategy
• Album cover design & packaging
• Photography direction
• Film & stop-motion direction
• Merchandise design & creative oversight
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Outcome
The project resulted in a cohesive visual and physical ecosystem that reflected the album’s emotional weight and openness. I Can’t Find the Edges of You lived beyond the music—existing as an immersive creative world that invited closeness, reflection, and repeated engagement.