Release date: Sept. 13, 2013

Photography: Jang Hyun Hong

Art direction: Hyunju Lee

Label: YG Entertainment

There's a Kit-Kat joke in here somewhere...break off a peace? At least, break off a piece of the peace symbol to create a new symbol. What exactly is the young Korean star saying by appropriating this image, on an album named for political upheaval? G-Dragon is used to taking things that come from Western pop-consciousness and refashioning them for his own use—why not this symbol, one originally created to advocate nuclear disarmament?

In a truly globalized environment, where pop singers trade across borders with ease, a singer like G-Dragon is less of an anomaly and more of a visionary, even if the semaphore buried in the original symbol might not hold up in this new iteration. But what does work is that East/West divide that emptying out the right side of this icon offers—the roundness, the oneness of the circle, is emphasized over the original symbol, giving a new global weight to the international smash-hit album's visuals. —Dale Eisinger