Editorial Projects

For the past couple of weeks I've been working on some editorial projects which has been a change of pace after the long and arduous stage set project. I had to produce illustrations for a different newspaper articles each day with mixed results so I'm just posting my favourites (and by favourites I mean the ones which I'm not actually embarrassed to have produced) here.

On the second day of the project I got given an article about genetic engineering. It referred to religious arguments against genetic engineering so I decided to play on that using the idea that people worship the human genome above all else so did a sort of tongue in cheek collage loosely based on old religious art.

One of the more challenging texts was quite a convoluted article from the Independent about corporate tax avoidance and how nation states hold the ultimate power against them - laws hold more sway than money and all companies eventually fail. I had to produce two illustrations of different formats and was restricted to a colour scheme of red and black.

I went for quite a simple style just using coloured pencils and using apple cores to represent Apple which was the company the article focused on. 

For the second illustration I decided to ham up the black red and white colour scheme with its obvious association with Constructivism and use the communist red hand crushing the apple as a bit of an anti-capitalist visual pun.

Berghain Record

Another of my one-day projects was a record cover design on any chosen genre/artist/label which had to include the number twenty as a feature of the design. I looked into a few but decided to go for a "Berghain Greatest Hits" album as a sort of ironic take on compilations playing on the exclusivity of Berghain and how it has almost become a victim of its own success.

I was thinking about the idea of techno tourism and EDM fans coming from the US to experience a scene which ends up being totally different from their horribly misguided preconceptions of dance music. Eventually I went for a design influenced by Russian Constructivism as a nod to Berlin's Soviet past and used the colours of the German flag:

"We don't want you"