The purpose of this Project was to create a two spread that translated into one with the use of design and illustration. I worked with talented illustrator Lydia Sharp throughout the entire process.
First, we decided on a topic we wanted our spread to focus on. Due to the popularity of the current events, we decided to address the current presidential elections. The article is about how Hillary Clinton's version of feminism is for rich, white women and is therefore ostracizing other women.
"While she may be the ideal candidate to make change for rich,
middle class, white women; her polices do not respond
to the ways in which all women are oppressed."
Lydia herself wrote the entire article.
Then, we both brought up inspirations and moodboards to explain what we wanted to do with each of our areas of focus; Lydia with illustration, and me with design. We came up with the metaphor
of Alice and Wonderland, which I pulled out into the illustrations adding card symbols to fulfill
the pages. We visualized Hillary's feminist campaign visualy in the colors of pink and light blues because we felt like these colors were girly and childish; to both represent Hilary's belief on the female stereotype and the kid-like aspect of our Alice in Wonderland metaphor. I decided
to make the design minimalistic and elegant, to embody to upper class aspect of Hillary's campaign.
Finally, we moved on to iterating the work. Lydia spent a lot of time on canvas creating both acrylic paintings and I worked through inDesign to finalize layout and typography.
