A local band approached me to rebrand their logo based around the themes within the music of their debut EP, Chasing Waves. After a discussion with the band, it was evident that they wanted to mix the concepts of two songs on their record to reflect the music that they offer. The first song, Chasing Waves, concerns itself with the conflicting atmospheres of the ocean, one of which is fascinating but also terrifying (so terrifying that the songwriter has a phobia of the ocean.) The second song, Rapture, is based around the destruction and breakdown of society, inspired by the game Bioshock, hence the name of the song. 
In some earlier sketches of the logo there was a real conflict between the idea of using script to get the flowing effect of water through the typography, but there were concerns that on printed documents it wouldn't stand out against other bands or be very legible, but wanted some of the effects of script in the logo anyway. 
The band really wanted the logo to be unique so the design was fully hand rendered before taking it to a digital form and was approved with the bold serif style typeface with some script elements to it to represent the water but those water elements also cut into the other letterforms to represent the destruction mentioned in their songs.  The water elements in the logo also help to tie together all the words in the logo and the N carries your eye through the design. The serif typeface was chosen as the IV in giving also looks like the roman numerical 4, which worked well as there are four members in the band. 

The EP Design was inspired by the title 'Chasing Waves' and lyrics within the song of the same title. The Ep was all digitally painted using a Wacom tablet. The silhouette of seaweed frames the central image so it can be easily manipulated to become tshirts in future and blend in with the colour of the tshirt, but also interacts with the illustration as it looks as though the seaweed is reaching out to the person drowning.