A Moon Shaped Pool is the ninth studio album by alternative rock band Radiohead. These album release promotional posters were intended to embody the addressed themes of groupthink, climate change, and heartbreak in their music. Lyrics in several songs mention elements such as fire, wind, and water, and were reference points in the posters’ visual conceptualization. As a result, process methods included scorching paper, scanning pages that were submerged underwater, and photographing the posters frozen in ice. 

Asides from the distortion caused by these elements, I wanted to keep the imagery minimal and focus on type as image as Radiohead’s sound is generally more experimental and abstract, encompassing a wide breadth of interpretations. After examining the letterforms, the repetition of the double o’s in “moon” and “pool” inspired me to draw a motif from the circles in these words and from the “i” in Radiohead to create unity between the two posters. The colour purple was used as it serves as a middle ground between the colours red and blue, which are often used to represent fire and water respectively.