Foals — Life Is Yours TOUR
LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE VISUALS
Collaboration with FRAY Studio
OVERVIEW
For Foals’ 2022 Life Is Yours tour, I developed a live visual concept designed to extend the emotional language of the record into physical space.
The aim was to create a visual environment that could move with the music, shaping atmosphere, rhythm, and scale in real time while giving the performance a stronger sense of coherence and emotional lift.
Built around fragmentation, light interference, and recurring forms, the work explored tension between release and containment, echoing the record’s movement between intimacy, euphoria, and pressure.
CONCEPT
The approach treated live visuals not as background content, but as an extension of the music itself, a shifting floral environment built from rhythm, tension, and release.
The design needed to:
amplify the emotional lift of the performance
create scale without losing intimacy
move fluidly between tension and release
respond to rhythm without becoming illustrative
support the live experience as a coherent visual world
The resulting visual language drew on fragmentation, light distortion, and spatial rhythm to create imagery that felt immersive, unstable, and alive.
VISUAL LANGUAGE
The visual language was built from a small set of recurring behaviours rather than fixed imagery.
Fragmentation disrupted stable forms, creating a sense of movement and instability, while circular structures acted as points of focus, release, and orientation within the system.
Light functioned as both atmosphere and structure, shifting between moments of clarity, interference, and distortion.
Through repetition and variation, these elements formed a flexible visual language capable of evolving across different songs, moods, and scales of performance.
VISUAL DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE VISUALISATION
The visual language was explored through a series of performance visualisations, testing how the system might operate at architectural scale and within a live musical environment.
The focus was on creating an immersive visual framework capable of supporting different emotional states across the performance.
RESULT
The project established a visual language capable of operating across both intimate and large-scale moments of performance, translating the emotional character of Life Is Yours into a coherent visual environment.
Through fragmentation, light distortion, and recurring geometric forms, the system created a flexible framework that could evolve with the music while maintaining a consistent visual identity. The imagery balanced immersion and disruption, moving between moments of clarity, tension, release, and euphoria.
Rather than functioning as decorative accompaniment, the visuals were designed to become part of the performance itself, extending the atmosphere of the record into physical space and reinforcing the relationship between sound, light, movement, and audience experience.
The result was a visual framework that demonstrated how a focused design language could shape the emotional tone of a live environment, creating a stronger sense of coherence, scale, and collective experience.
CREDITS
Project · Foals — Life Is Yours Tour
Studio · FRAY Studio
Role · Conceptual Direction & Visual Development
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