Music of 2020
As a senior designer and illustrator for the Reporter magazine at the university, I was given the opportunity to design the cover and TOC for the November issue. Since this was towards the end of a turbulent year, I wanted to take a look back at the crazy, restless, and uncertain times. I decided to use a visual metaphor of blowing trumpets within a satirical context.
Date
Nov, 2020
Category
Editorial Design | Illustration | Graphic Design
Tools
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Indesign
Blowing a trumpet heralds a grand event to celebrate an achievement or to start a war. Here I've given a visual form to the music of a dystopian and socio-politically fragmented society that is gradually surfacing as a result of different issues that we've dealt with over the past year, be it the pandemic, the wildfires, or the BLM.
Ironically, we celebrate the progress of man every day, his victory in establishing the norms of culture.
However, the past year has shown us the mirror of where we really stand and how degenerative our perceptions about races, gender and equality could be, how we thrive on misinformation and fail to understand our prejudices and biases.
The Table of Contents shows the dance to the music on the cover page. The juxtaposition of the sun against a night sky with a close-up shot of feet tapping to the music is a surreal representation of our support systems that kept us sailing on the rough waters in a hope that we might see better days soon.
The use of textures, flats, and grains adds to the visual tone of the narration.
