We were asked to choose an album that has left its mark on the music world and to reimagine the album’s visual identity. The added twist was that we had to incorporate an everyday object into our photographs. We chose Daft Punk’s album Discovery, their second studio album. The challenge was to create a visual universe for them without showing their iconic helmets, moving away from the metallic aesthetic that is so prominent in their visuals.

Created in collaboration with Clément Bertholle, Thomas Cristini, Naïs Favre, and Céleste Tellene
Duration: 1 week

The goal is to capture the essence through an everyday object the CD combined with stone, in reference to the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Inspired by discovery, travel, and contrast, we sought to convey the album’s grandeur and timelessness with a striking cover where the CD is embedded in a raw rock formation, while the back of the vinyl features the Daft Punk logo engraved in stone. Minimalist and streamlined, the physical object plays on materiality and simplicity, with a deliberately stripped-down interior and a discreet tracklist on the CD. The vinyl records are transparent, and the silver holographic labels echo the CD’s reflections and the duo’s futuristic aesthetic.
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The entire project, complemented by a series of posters, visually captures the duality between futurism and timelessness inherent in Discovery, highlighting its raw energy and legendary significance.

To make the concrete slab that holds the CD, we used quick-setting concrete, and several of them broke before or during production!