YEAR · 2026
Forma Anima or Soul Shaping is an editorial book that explores the invisible process through which music shapes the human soul. Divided into chapters,
it tells the story of a journey: the transformation of an empty vessel into a living form, slowly molded by emotions, memories, wounds, and experiences.
At the beginning, the container is only darkness, a silent space waiting to be filled. Through sound, it begins to breathe, to fracture, to heal and to take shape. Each chapter becomes a fragment of the soul, a different stage of existence, where music becomes the force that gives form to what cannot be seen.
The project draws inspiration from the experimental approach of visionary designers such as David Carson, Neville Brody, and Stefan Sagmeister, embracing typography as a visual language capable of playing with meaning, rhythm, and emotion. Letters become movement, texture, and voice;
a reflection of the music itself.
CREATIVE DIRECTION AND MOODBOARD:
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Each artist represents a different passage of life and an emotional transformation, expressed through a unique color identity and visual atmosphere.
From the deep black of the prologue, through the emptiness before creation to the final return, where darkness is no longer absence but a container filled with everything experienced, Forma Anima becomes a map of inner evolution. Through pain, vision, rebellion, mystery, transformation, rebirth, and identity, every sound leaves behind a trace, a scar of light carved into the self. The book is not only a collection of musical stories, but a ritual of becoming.
