Audio 1.
A visual world built across two vinyl releases for an independent electronic project — identity, cover art, packaging and merch marks.
Audio 1 is an electronic music project released on ISRU Records out of Paris. The brief was a complete visual universe — not a single sleeve, but a system to carry future releases.
The concept drew on the imagery of a launch: the ritual of ignition, the quiet of orbit, the ceremony of a mission crest. From that, a small language: a bold geometric wordmark with a slashed "O", NASA-archive cover photography paired with italic serif typography, and a heritage-style mission seal (United Federation of Starlight) drawn to double as sticker, label and merch art.
Two releases were delivered to date — the single Take Off and the album Lunar — each with its own sleeve, back cover and labels, both read as chapters of the same ongoing world.
The first release — a single named after the moment the project leaves the ground. NASA-archive photography on the front, italic serif tracklist on the back, catalog number ISRUR20201114. The launch tower on the reverse echoes the rocket on the cover from a different angle — a visual rhyme.
The album. Where Take Off stayed at launch, Lunar settles into orbit. The full moon replaces the rocket, the tracklist takes the back cover on a pale ground — a visual pause after the dark navy of the first release, closing the arc from launch to arrival.
The three marks that hold the universe together. The wordmark — a geometric sans with a slashed "O" — is the primary signature across all releases. The crest (United Federation of Starlight, MMXXI) functions as sticker, label and merch mark. The helmet is a 3D-rendered artifact that extends the world beyond print — a recurring object in the Audio 1 universe.
A record label— The brief, set for the project
is a mission.
Audio 1 was never meant to be a single sleeve. The ask was for a world — one that could carry a first single, an album, a merch drop, a sticker on a shipping box — and still read as the same thing.
The system is open: new releases earn new covers, new sides earn new marks, but the vocabulary stays. Launch, orbit, the ceremony of the crest. A record label as mission control.
- Art direction
- Alicia Gálvez
- Design
- Alicia Gálvez
- Illustration
- Alicia Gálvez
- Client
- Audio 1 (ISRU Records, Paris)
- Scope
- Logo system · Vinyl sleeves · Mission crest · Merch marks
- Releases
- Take Off (single, 2020) · Lunar (album, 2020)
- Year
- 2020–2021
