GOLDLINK – DIASPORA
To celebrate the return of GoldLink with his 2nd studio album Diaspora, we were tasked to creative direct the entire world in which his music resides. The core concept was an alternate reality that all black peoples reside after they pass from this reality – a haven trapped in the early 2000s, in which they become vampires of the diaspora.
Our ambition was to reinvent vampire tropes & subvert eurocentric ideals – the black vampire. All the visuals revolve around cultural references to the black diaspora, such as using the Pan-African colors of red/yellow/gold as the palette and using the owl as the animal symbol (instead of the bat).
We took this branding concept across all the cover art with two singles and LP, as well as the IFFY FM Beats 1 radio identity. We also built out an interactive website that featured a 3D blood moon, evoking a contemporary take on a GeoCities site.
We brought Diaspora into the real world with videos for Zulu Screams (dir. Meiji Alabi), U Say (dir. Santi), and Joke Ting (dir. Aisultan Seitovn), as well as directing GoldLink’s performance with Maleek Berry on Jimmy Fallon.
Diaspora went on tour with Tyler the Creator & Jaden Smith for Tyler’s IGOR run, hitting arenas such as Madison Square Garden and Merriweather Post Pavilion. We used first-of-its-kind hologram fan technology in a live performance setting to create a blood moon that could transform throughout the show
To celebrate the return of GoldLink with his 2nd studio album Diaspora, we were tasked to creative direct the entire world in which his music resides. The core concept was an alternate reality that all black peoples reside after they pass from this reality – a haven trapped in the early 2000s, in which they become vampires of the diaspora.
Our ambition was to reinvent vampire tropes & subvert eurocentric ideals – the black vampire. All the visuals revolve around cultural references to the black diaspora, such as using the Pan-African colors of red/yellow/gold as the palette and using the owl as the animal symbol (instead of the bat).
We took this branding concept across all the cover art with two singles and LP, as well as the IFFY FM Beats 1 radio identity. We also built out an interactive website that featured a 3D blood moon, evoking a contemporary take on a GeoCities site.
We brought Diaspora into the real world with videos for Zulu Screams (dir. Meiji Alabi), U Say (dir. Santi), and Joke Ting (dir. Aisultan Seitovn), as well as directing GoldLink’s performance with Maleek Berry on Jimmy Fallon.
Diaspora went on tour with Tyler the Creator & Jaden Smith for Tyler’s IGOR run, hitting arenas such as Madison Square Garden and Merriweather Post Pavilion. We used first-of-its-kind hologram fan technology in a live performance setting to create a blood moon that could transform throughout the show
