Amores e Outras Flores

“Amores e Outras Flores” (“Loves and Other Flowers”) is a 2019 album by the Brazilian singer and songwriter Zebeto Corrêa.

The album’s central theme is love. The 13 songs feature different expressions of what it means to love and be loved through everyday stories from Zebeto’s home state, Minas Gerais, and metaphors about flowers.

Zebeto invited me to design the packaging for the CD, using a painting by his friend Jorge Dip as the cover art. The colorful, gestural, and textured work seemed to have great synergy with the album’s proposal. I saw in the painting not only the potential for a cover but also the basis for the entire visual universe of the album.

I went through a sensory immersion process, observing it while listening to the songs, and extracted the colors and circular shapes that illustrate the entire album. In the booklet, I gave individual treatment to each track, creating collages that portrayed the stories and the feelings I had when I heard them.