Rules of Detention pt.2
Cover art and key imagery for WXRLDPRINCE's remix album Rules of Detention Pt. 2. A haunted British phone box, built entirely in 3D.
For the remix of Rules of Detention, we built WXRLDPRINCE a world to match the record. The original cover told a story: a bad kid drinking in the park after dark, climbing trees, up to no good in the British night. So we picked the thread up where it left off. Pt. 2 lives in the phone box he finds out there in the dark, the one he uses to call up every artist on the record. We built the whole thing in 3D, from the neo-tribal metalwork to the green glow bleeding into the trees, and posters of the original cover caught mid-air around it. One image, a whole universe behind it.
Concept & Creative Direction
The idea grew straight out of the first album. WXRLDPRINCE's original cover was pure British teenage misrule — drinking in the park, climbing trees, the kind of night everyone from round here remembers. For the remix, we needed the sequel to that story: if Pt. 1 was the park, Pt. 2 is the phone box he stumbles on in the dark, the line he uses to summon the features onto the record. We wrapped it in neo-tribal metal — all thorns, spines and blades — to give it that cold, gothic, slightly dangerous edge, then planted it in a pitch-black park lit only by its own eerie green. Posters of the original cover spin through the air around it, tying the two chapters together. Familiar, but somewhere darker.
Final Artwork
Every last detail was built and rendered in 3D — no photography, no shortcuts. The craft lived in two places: the metalwork and the atmosphere. The neo-tribal accents had to feel forged and deliberate, wrapping the box like armour, while the lighting did the emotional work — that sickly green glow pooling in the dark, catching the wet grass and throwing just enough light to make the whole thing feel discovered rather than staged. The result is cover art you could step inside. Not a picture of a place, but a place — proof that the right world, built right, pulls you all the way in.
