Earth Unwrapped

“Earth Unwrapped. Sirens for a Wounded Planet” is Kings Place's year-long music series exploring the state of the Anthropocene. The programme investigates the complex relationship between humans and the Earth, addressing phenomena such as pollution, climate change and ecological loss. It also reflects on how ecosystems recover and what we can learn from them, principles of balance, interdependence, synergy, symbiosis and interconnected networks.

The music spans from the songs and stories of Indigenous cultures to newly commissioned works responding to the planet’s fragile state. Featuring the sounds of nature, both where it thrives and where it is critically endangered, the series uses soundscape technology to recreate these environments, blending live performance with visual elements in immersive new works.

Type of work

Identity
Campaign
Editorial

Design and strategy

The visual identity is built on a creative concept that envisions a futuristic landscape where nature and the artificial merge. Real landscapes are reimagined as speculative terrains, representing both memory and possible futures. Natural and man-made elements collide and intertwine, forming a new hybrid environment that blurs the line between organic and synthetic.

The graphics celebrate the series' central message: even a wounded world can sustain, nourish, and inspire us, offering moments of wonder and joy.

Supporting imagery began with landscape photography connected to themes explored in the series. Each image was then ‘glitched’ through creative coding to evoke the core idea, a re-imagined nature. In visual terms, a glitch represents a sudden, temporary disruption, anomalies that hint at deeper truths. These disruptions become visual metaphors for our altered relationship with the environment, echoing optical illusions, uncanny coincidences, and phenomena that seem to defy the natural order.

The final identity features these beautifully fractured textures, unexpected and otherworldly. Spanning both print and digital platforms, the visual system extends across brochures, outdoor banners, posters, digital signage, and social media assets.

Project developed with Binomi design studio.