Doja Cat —
Hot Pink Album Campaign
Creative direction and design for Doja Cat's breakthrough studio album Hot Pink.
Client
Doja Cat
Discipline
Art Direction, Creative Direction, Design
Sector
Entertainment
Hot Pink is Doja Cat's second studio album and the project that announced her to the world, earning her a Grammy nomination and establishing her as one of the most dominant charting artists of her generation.
Doja came to the project with a singular vision: a pink shower scene as the album cover. That image became the creative anchor for the entire campaign. The central question was how to build a world expansive enough to support it. The answer came in the form of a concept as bold as the artist herself: Barbie's dream house meets the Playboy Mansion. Each shot in the campaign would be a different room in that house, every scene its own moment within a larger, fully realized universe.
Drawing from her unfiltered humor, her outspokenness, and the genre-blending nature of the record, a seamless fusion of pop, hip-hop, and R&B, every visual decision was made to amplify her eccentricity, her playfulness, and her confidence. The work was designed to be provocative without sacrificing wit. Unapologetically sexual, but always tongue-in-cheek. The goal was to make people want the album before they had heard a single note, to spark curiosity and forge a genuine connection with the artist behind it.
The concept extended beyond the campaign and into the album release party, held at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The entire experience felt playful, irreverent, and distinctly Doja: not too serious, and of course, very pink.
What began as one artist's vision for a shower scene grew into the visual foundation that would carry Doja Cat as she evolved into one of the most recognizable presences in contemporary music.