Visão Noturna

Brand identity for the release of Visão Noturna’s album, a collaborative project between Angolan multidisciplinary artist Nástio Mosquito and Brazilian musician and composer Felipe Antunes. Visão Noturna (Night Vision) explores a return to nature as a way to distance ourselves from the destructive forces of modern progress, positioning art as a form of resistance. I developed the brand identity for the project’s launch, as well as a special publication containing lyrics, poems, reflections, and photographs captured during the one-month residency in the Brazilian countryside where the album was produced. The visual identity reflects the rich cultural dialogue between Mosquito, Antunes, and the artistic and technical team. It evokes a fusion of ideas, images, landscapes, and colors—tangible yet transformed into something otherworldly through this creative exchange. We departed from the concept of night vision—a technology born on the battlefields of World War II and used in hunting. Instead of using this metaphor as a dominant idea, we reimagine night vision as a way to see humanity clearly, revealing our shared existence without stripping it of its complexity or dignity. The visuals highlight the dual nature of collaboration, capturing the interplay of perspectives, histories, and interpretations. This conversation between different angles is mirrored in the design’s interplay of light and shadow, as well as its textures and forms. While color serves as a gateway to a technological world, the high grain, rich textures, and abstract imagery reconnect us to nature—its subtle movements, soft shades, and celestial vastness. The resulting visual language is both rich and layered, blending metaphors that reflect the deeply collaborative nature of the album’s creation. It resembles an abstract collage or a clipboard of overlaid moments, where dark landscapes and intricate details merge into a larger vision. On a secondary layer, geometric forms, artificial constellations, RGB-processed stars, and text boxes interrupt and add to the conversation, creating a new visual cosmos—a dialogue that challenges, disrupts, and ultimately transforms.