Hermitage is a Ghent-based band fronted by singer-songwriter Divan, performing in Dutch across a register that moves between chanson, pop and melodic rock. Studio Studio has designed the band’s visual output across more than a decade of releases, beginning with the second album Alleen De Liefde Kan U Redden in 2013 and the theatre tour that followed it.
The artwork for that album is built on a single motif: the cube, used as both graphic element and physical object. On the cover, the CD and the vinyl, the cube operates as a symbolic container, refracting the record’s preoccupation with love into an abstract, structural image. On stage, the same form was translated into luminous cube objects, extending the graphic identity into the scenography of the tour. A single drawn from the album carried the same visual language into a separate release. In 2015 followed 10 Jaar: Live, the album marking the band’s tenth anniversary.
In 2017 Studio Studio designed a set of four EPs, Winter, Lente, Zomer and Herfst. A single abstract image is divided into four parts, one part printed on each sleeve, so that the four EPs assembled together reconstruct the complete image. Every cover carries the same four season titles in the same position; on each EP a different season is highlighted while the other three recede. Each sleeve is a complete object in itself, and the four are a single one, depending on whether they are seen apart or together.
