Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever — except she was a fraud
Editorial Illustration for Paperpile Blog - https://paperpile.com/blog/elena-ceausescu-scientist-fraud/
Concept for Proposal 1
Elena Ceausescu standing proud with a page of her scientific publication she never wrote.
Photograph of Elena Ceausescu
All she cared about was power and prestige represented with the communist symbol in her mind and nothing more. “she had zero skills or education” and “almost illiterate”
Elements about communism
The Romanian Crest / Socialist Republic of Romania emblem of the people’s o Romania)
Elements about science
Page of her study of the synthesis "Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene on the Stabilization of Synthetic Rubbers on Copolymerization".
Concept for Proposal 2
Elena Ceausescu was a heavy burden over the shoulders of true scholars and scientist.
Concept for composition:
Elena Ceausescu
Silver Medal given in honour of her "Scientific Merit", c.1974. Represented as a heavy burden over the shoulders of true scholars and scientist.
Elements about communism
Color and Illustration style of socialist party propaganda
Elements about science
She thought she could gain prestige by publishing books and having lots of titles to her name.
It was easy for her to find scientists to publish studies and books in her name, after all they did not have much of a
choice and were also handsomely rewarded for their work.
Concept for Proposal 3
Elena crossing out the author’s name and writing her own in a child like manner.
Photograph of Elena Ceausescu
Elena crossing out the author’s name and writing her own in a child like manner.
“The centre is the almost comical personal cult around her being a scientist” and “devious, vindictive and cheated her way to glory and fame by forcing other scientists to publish in her name”.
Elements about communism
An entire organization was involved in translating and distributing "her" works, while she certainly never wrote a thing herself during her life.
Elements about science
Chemistry Erlenmeyer Flask used incorrectly to drink a Martini.
Client Feedback
Hi Julio,
Those proposals are all great. I think we should go for proposal-1.
We also like proposal-2 a lot and we might come back to this for another blog post.
Best,
Stefan
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Hi Julio,
That looks great. I only have one comment for revisions:
The fonts seems quite modern and a bit out of time. I've attached an image of a paper from the 1960s. Would it be possible to use a font more similar to that?
Thanks,
Stefan
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Hi Julio,
Thanks for the fast turnaround and great results.
Thanks,
Stefan
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