The Chaos Pool Concept

Port Rhombus led the creative development for “Chaos Pool,” a concept-heavy audiovisual project released under Clean Error. While the narrative emerged from the artists themselves (Nora and Tess), our studio built the world around it — architecting a visual language that could carry the emotional and thematic weight of the release across digital touchpoints.

“This pool doesn’t heal you—it replaces you.”

This became the core premise we translated into design.

Concept & Creative Direction

The central metaphor of the Chaos Pool – a sci-fi-esque “neural rinse” station in a future city — became our launchpad. Port Rhombus developed the narrative world through art direction and visual strategy, shaping it not as literal science fiction, but as emotional terrain: identity loss, digital memory, versioning.

We worked directly with the artists to define what “post-self” imagery would look like: part haunting, part rebirth. For the first time in a Clean Error release, we used real photographic portraits of the artists. But instead of presenting them as-is, we altered them just enough to cause cognitive slippage — as if you’re seeing the version of them that emerged from the pool, not the one that entered.

Faces were distorted through subtle AI-generated warping and color mutation, enhanced with analog-style overlays and environmental decay.
Think: Blade Runner fog meets late-’90s glitch labels with a touch of digital melancholy.

Port Rhombus used a hybrid production pipeline:

-Photography (artist-submitted and sourced)
–Midjourney + post-trained AI models for environment-building and stylistic distortion
-Photoshop & Runway for final composite and video treatments
-Figma for layout prototypes and rollout plans

The result was a set of assets – from cover art to promo visuals, that felt emotionally charged, visually consistent, and narratively alive.

This project reflects what Port Rhombus does best: take a strong idea, shape its world, and manifest that world through design, imagery, and digital execution. It’s not just artwork — it’s a creative atmosphere people want to step into.