RIVANT

Lyrik-205

Kbir

Covers for nine singles; CD, vinyl and cassette packaging for Bayaan and Heartless; the videos and posts for release; and a 3D visualiser for Lethal.

Artist
Kbir, as Lyrik-205
What we did
Cover art, Packaging design, Social media design, Motion design
Years
2021 to 2023
The Bayaan record, its label printed with the cover.
The Bayaan cover: a face in torn red on near-black, above BAYAAN -205- LYRIK in stone-textured capitals.

Bayaan

A face in torn red on near-black, rough at every edge, with the title set thin and filled with stone. Open the digipack and the red gives way to fog: a pine forest runs across the inside, with the title and where to listen.

The Bayaan CD digipack lying open on black: the forest panel with the title, the cover on a sleeve, and the disc in its tray.
The CD digipack open: the forest panel, the cover on its sleeve, and the disc.
A player card under pink stage lights: the Bayaan cover, the title and Kbir, a progress bar and playback controls.
A player card for the release.
The Bayaan CD digipack open on a dark walnut table: the red-faced cover on the front, the misty forest inside, and the silver disc half out of its tray.

The digipack on a walnut table.

The Bayaan story
The inside of the Bayaan digipack, flat: a misty pine forest, with BAYAAN -205- LYRIK and ‘Listen to Bayaan on Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube’.
Inside the Bayaan digipack, printed flat.

Heartless

The Heartless cover: HEARTLESS scrawled in red, an arrow through a hand-drawn heart, and LYRIK-205 below, over red smoke on black.

The louder of the two: red lettering scrawled by hand and an arrow through a drawn heart, over smoke and scuffs. It runs across a 12-inch sleeve, a clear cassette and a digipack lined in pale pink.

  • 12-inch sleeve and record
  • Clear cassette
  • CD digipack, lined in pink
The Heartless digipack open: the lettering on a pale pink inside, the cover on the right.
The CD digipack, lined in pink.
The Heartless 12-inch sleeve leaning against a shelf of records in a small shop, the black record half out of the sleeve.

12-inch sleeve

A clear cassette case with the Heartless cover as its insert, on a black desk next to wired headphones.

Cassette

The singles

Bayaan and Heartless were two of nine singles we made covers for between January 2021 and September 2022, each with a look of its own: a red brush title on cracked paint for 91 Flow, a figure traced in white line and flame for Rewind, dripping stone over a painted demon for Demons, a maze for In These Walls.

  1. The Bayaan cover: a face in torn red on near-black, above BAYAAN -205- LYRIK in stone-textured capitals.

    Bayaan

    2021

  2. The 91 Flow cover: 91 FLOW in red brush lettering over cracked black-and-white paint, with LYRIK and 205 beneath.

    91 Flow

    2021

  3. The Rewind cover: a figure drawn in white line, ringed with orange flame, over blue scribbles on black, REWIND above and LYRIK-205 below, and a parental advisory label in the corner.

    Rewind

    2021

  4. The Sawaal cover: SAWAAL and LYRIK-205 in red brush capitals over a dark street at night.

    Sawaal

    2021

  5. The Demons cover: DEMONS in dripping stone capitals and LYRIK-205 over a painted demon’s open jaws in a dark red forest.

    Demons

    2021

  6. The Heartless cover: HEARTLESS scrawled in red, an arrow through a hand-drawn heart, and LYRIK-205 below, over red smoke on black.

    Heartless

    2021

  7. The Petrified cover: two faces torn from paper, one red and one pink, over PETRIFIED in glitching blue and pink, and ‘LyriK ft. LilPsycho’ in script.

    Petrified

    ft. Lil Psycho, 2022

  8. The In These Walls (Remix) cover: IN THESE WALLS in red condensed capitals, boxed in at the centre of a maze of thin lines on black.

    In These Walls (Remix)

    2022

  9. The Drop Top cover: the two artists in black and white at night, DROP TOP in red above them and ‘LyriK-205 Ft. Lil Psycho’ below, in a red frame.

    Drop Top

    ft. Lil Psycho, 2022

The 91 Flow, Rewind and Demons sleeves fanned at the front of a wooden record crate in a small shop.

Three sleeves at the front of a record crate.

On YouTube

On YouTube the singles went out with a thumbnail and an audio video: the cover on its sleeve with the record turning out of it, on a ground in the cover’s colour. Each record’s label is printed with its cover.

Audio video, Bayaan
Audio video, 91 Flow
Audio video, Petrified
  • The Bayaan thumbnail: the torn red face at the left, BAYAAN -205- LYRIK at the right, and AUDIO RELEASE in the corner.

    Bayaan

  • The 91 Flow thumbnail: the brush title over the cracked paint, widened, in a thin green frame.

    91 Flow

  • The Rewind thumbnail: the drawn figure at the left, REWIND and LYRIK-205 at the right over scribbled circles.

    Rewind

  • The Sawaal thumbnail: the red title over the dark street, widened.

    Sawaal

  • The Demons thumbnail: the stone title over the demon in the forest, widened.

    Demons

  • The Petrified thumbnail: the two torn faces at either side and the glitching title beneath.

    Petrified

  • The In These Walls thumbnail: the boxed title in the maze, widened.

    In These Walls (Remix)

  • The Drop Top thumbnail: the two artists in black and white under the red title.

    Drop Top

  • The Bayaan record, its label printed with the cover.

    Record, Bayaan

  • The 91 Flow record, its label printed with the cover.

    Record, 91 Flow

  • The Drop Top record, its label printed with the cover.

    Record, Drop Top

Release posts

For release: a story with the sleeve and record, a story promo with the record turning out of its sleeve, and a carousel each for Bayaan and Heartless that joins up into one picture as it is swiped.

A story: the Bayaan cover on a sleeve in a dark red frame, with the record sliding out of it.
Story, Bayaan
Story promo, Bayaan
The Bayaan carousel as one picture: the flat artwork, the record and the digipack, then the open digipack, then the player card, across a dark grid.
Carousel, Bayaan, 4 slides
The Heartless carousel as one picture: the sleeve and record, the cassette and the digipack, across a dark grid.
Carousel, Heartless, 3 slides

Lethal

For Lethal, in 2023, the video is a scene built in Blender: a gold skull turning in the dark under a neon LETHAL sign, the credits turning in the same white neon, and embers drifting past. It was rendered in 4K for YouTube, and again upright for an Instagram promo.

The visualiser, 4K, for YouTube
Promo, Instagram

Credits

Artist
Kbir, releasing as Lyrik-205
Services
Cover art, Packaging design, Social media design, Motion design
What we made
Nine covers; CD digipacks, vinyl and cassette artwork; record labels, YouTube thumbnails and audio videos; stories, a player card and two carousels; a 3D visualiser
Years
2021 to 2023
Studio
Rivant Media