How It's Done — WARP Album Covers
To celebrate War Robots' 11th Anniversary, we created a rock-themed in-game event. As part of it, a group of Pilots formed a rock band called WARP (WAr Robots Pilots) and are on their way to a concert.
We decided to bring this concept to life even more by creating some iconography for the band.
Design by Ilya Kuzmenkov.
The initial task was to create a WARP logo in style of War Robots but without too much elements from the traditional metal genre
Some refs from our game designers
Some album covers to use as composition refs and a new module from the game
The reference selection for the logo is overall very straightforward, since I’ve seen a lot of rock and metal stuff — plenty of examples come to mind. Still, I added a few more to the existing ones — fairly neutral ones from classic hard and heavy
Using the logos from the references as a guide, I created several variations, but the main one was developed based on the WR logo, which makes sense
The I chose and refined one of the variations
The two covers with the pilots turned out pretty standard for our style — just played around with the space theme and the pilots themselves. The third one however...
It's is based on a new module from the game, with a nod to those disc-shaped 80s rock album covers on a space theme
Here's some hypothetical merch with WARP logo and album covers
And this is a banner for a WARP's big concert in Rome!