Chroma

Chroma is an independent annual that documents electronic music culture through long-form writing and commissioned photography. For its fifth issue — on night-time sound and the rooms it fills — the editors asked the studio to direct the whole visual register: cover, portrait series and a layout system flexible enough for essays, interviews and photo stories.

The concept was simple: shoot every sitter in the light they perform in. Red rooms, blue booths, sodium stairwells — no studio backdrops, no retouching past recognition.

The studio cast and directed three nights of portrait sessions across Brussels and Antwerp, then built the issue around them — full-bleed openers, generous margins, and a single condensed grotesque running against the photography. Captions were set like set-lists; running heads carry the issue's recording dates.

Print production was treated as part of the art direction: uncoated stock, a deep-red fifth colour on section openers, and singer-sewn binding so spreads sit flat.