Multitude
about the project
Multitude is an album about the full weight of being human — depression, suicidal ideation, gender dysphoria, the condition of being born into circumstances you didn't choose. For each song, Stromae inhabits a different life. We all contain multitudes. The redesign starts from one question: how do you make that feel close? These themes can seem extreme, distant — things that happen to other people. So the cover becomes a drone shot over a square in Ostia — a crowd of anonymous figures, seen from above. Scattered through the frame, a few highlighted in yellow. Random, almost careless. Because in a crowd this size, someone is always carrying one of these stories. It might be the person next to you. It might be you. Open the case: the crowd becomes a pattern — figures repeated, contoured, stripped of context. Remove the disc: the pattern disappears. One person remains, small, alone in the upper corner. You only notice the solitude once everything else is gone.
Multitude is an album about the full weight of being human — depression, suicidal ideation, gender dysphoria, the condition of being born into circumstances you didn't choose. For each song, Stromae inhabits a different life. We all contain multitudes. The redesign starts from one question: how do you make that feel close? These themes can seem extreme, distant — things that happen to other people. So the cover becomes a drone shot over a square in Ostia — a crowd of anonymous figures, seen from above. Scattered through the frame, a few highlighted in yellow. Random, almost careless. Because in a crowd this size, someone is always carrying one of these stories. It might be the person next to you. It might be you. Open the case: the crowd becomes a pattern — figures repeated, contoured, stripped of context. Remove the disc: the pattern disappears. One person remains, small, alone in the upper corner. You only notice the solitude once everything else is gone.
services
Graphic Design
year
2023
location
Rome, Italy
















