Dark Tala

Dark Tala album sleeve with a black vinyl record partly slid out to the right, the cover showing a softly blurred figure on olive-grey ground beneath gothic Dark Tala lettering grading from gold through red to black, tightly framed against a warm amber-orange backdrop

Where darkness becomes light.

Dark Tala is an alt-metal project by musician Danielle Intemann, built around ideas of alchemy and the cycle between darkness and light. Rooted in the tale of Tala, a goddess from Tagalog mythology, the project arrived with a richly developed world of symbolism, music and visual references to draw from.

The resulting logo and mark distil that world through star and infinity forms, with a type treatment that weaves between fantasy, the occult and alt-metal.

Services

  • Logo design
  • Logo mark
White gothic Dark Tala wordmark on black beside the black Dark Tala star mark on off-white
Dark Tala poster on a distressed near-black ground, DARK in oversized rust-red gothic lettering running down the left and TALA below, a central photograph of a pale hand pressed against frosted glass overlaid with the four-pointed star mark, a thin terracotta line winding behind it and small serif lyric lines to either side
Two Dark Tala 'Waking Up' player mockups on black: a music app showing the album cover of a figure beneath the gothic wordmark with playback controls, and an embedded YouTube video of a drum kit and guitar on an amber-lit stage with the star mark projected behind
Front and back of a vintage Dark Tala tarot card on a rust-orange ground, the front showing the Star card with a golden four-pointed star and a kneeling figure pouring water, the back featuring the gothic Dark Tala wordmark in gold