WIRED WORLD ANNUAL 2023
C O M M I S S I O N E D W O R K
January 2023
January 2023
Crispr Wants to Feed the World
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-editing-climate/
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-gene-editing-climate/
El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/climate-environment-hurricane/
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/climate-environment-hurricane/
The Food Chain Should Be a Food Circle
Article Link: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/food-chain-regenerative-farming-environment
Article Link: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/food-chain-regenerative-farming-environment
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/environment-climate-change-storytelling/
Article Link: https://www.wired.com/story/environment-climate-change-storytelling/
I was commissioned by WIRED UK to illustrate the Environment section inside WIRED World Annual 2023. The brief consisted of 2 full page illustrations, 5 1/4 page illustrations and one spot illustration, each relating to an article about various topics surrounding the climate and environmental innovations.
C O M P O S I T I O N R O U G H S
After reading through the articles, I created 2-3 variations of composition rough for each one. I aimed to create a range of compositions to create variation throughout the section. As a lot of the articles discussed emerging technologies and innovations to tackle the issue of climate change in 2023, I focused on presenting that drive and energy through the illustrations. A lot of the articles were also technically complex, discussing theories and technologies at the forefront of their respective field, so I focused on extracting the core themes as well as the human elements of each article to create a series of warm and accessible illustrations.
C O L O U R R O U G H S
The brief also consisted of incorporating the main colour of the chapter throughout the illustrations. For the environment section, I was assigned a light purple colour. After playing around with possible colour combinations, I submitted 2-3 colour variations for each of the sketches. In the end, the combination of a bright pink with shades of the purple seemed to work the best.
AD: Oliver Hazelwood
Client: WIRED UK
Client: WIRED UK
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