Secret 7" Black Rain

This submission for Secret 7" illustrates a vinyl cover for 'Black Rain' by Keane. The song communicates feelings of longing and uncertainty, through the metaphor of 'black rain', symbolizing emotional struggles or a sense of being lost. My design illustrates the focus of the song, 'Black Rain'. I used repeated lines in a grid, but made them collapse in the center. This communicated the idea of rain as a literal piece of imagery, but also uncovered a conceptual way of seeing the design. Having irregularly moving lines that communicate collapse or falling down links well to Keane's message in the song. The links to mental and emotional struggle, uncertainty, fragility, and vulnerability are all communicated through the design. I used a black background with white lines however, to show th