Cover Disco Love Is in the Air

An incisive illustration created for the cover of Nick Teq’s “Love is in the Air” album. The graphic depicts the rapper wearing a gas mask. However, this mask is not a means of protecting himself from harmful substances in the air, but rather a symbol that protects the artist from the love that is in the air, represented by a rain of little hearts. The illustration offers an intriguing idea about the barriers we put up to protect ourselves from the feelings and fears of suffering because of them, but also about the beauty that emerges when we have the courage to lower them. A symbolic representation of an artist trying to control his feelings, forced into a cliché that portrays rappers as tough guys who can’t show their weaknesses.

The album cover follows a series of graphics (posters) representing other historical Italian singers, who speak of love in their works.