Monocle Magazine

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MONOCle MAGAZINE

A little background...

This brief required the creation of iconography as illustrations for Monocle’s September issue with the overall theme of a global community. The chosen article for this project was the art issue where 10 tips are given for new art collectors informing them on how to become a successful art collector. Challenges revolving this project are the consistency of the icons as well as a consistent colour palette and communicating a specific idea to the audience.

For my concept the icon set consists of a humanistic body acting out all the actions that are given as tips through the article, acting as your guide to becoming an art collector. The double-page spread consists of the article with the icon set as well as the spot illustration. The spot illustration resembles how you move up to the top as you use the tips and getting closer to be a successful art collector. A palette illustration is used for the base of all the icons and the colour palette is shades of the complementary colours, blue and orange. All of these things contributed to communicating the theme of art to the audience