Vandelust, the album/single covers

For the cover of their self-titled debut album of the band Vanderlust, the band requested something visually "exaggerated" yet strongly connected with the message they wanted to convey: that humankind—and all its issues—is not meant to perish on planet Earth. The final artwork is self-explanatory: skyscrapers reaching far beyond the atmosphere of a colonized exoplanet, resembling towers precariously perched on the edge of a massive hole for "core energy" extraction. This juxtaposes the contradictory human instinct to ascend and explore the unknown boundaries of the outer universe against the imminent peril of plunging into the abyss within everyone's inner universe.

Regarding the four singles' covers, however, I had carte blanche, as long as the artworks remained faithful to the themes narrated in the lyrics: the greed of a group of deviant space waste collectors, the mournful swan song of a dying species before a violent mass extinction, the loneliness of an endling alien discovered by human explorers, and the hope for a bright future upon the discovery of a new star system.