Unnewscessary is a personal project started in 2019 as an Instagram page. It's formerly known as Weekly Graphic News.
A mix of passion for editorial art and interest in journalism led me to this idea, upon finding that some very interesting stories get lost in our feed because they have an ordinary cover picture, like a stock image that doesn’t say much. That’s because some subjects are too abstract to be photographed, so editors are pairing them with something neutral and insipid.
In the same time, magazines are going to great lengths to craft custom illustrations for their editorial pieces. They sense the creative freedom an abstract subject embodies, so they come up with complex artworks that fit the story like a glove.
And given that most of us are consuming news mainly on social media nowadays, I thought I could fill that gap between news reporting and the editorial approach.
So I started searching for interesting, mainly positive stories that either lacked compelling pictures or were just worthy of an artwork. I soon found out that the best thing about this challenge was the diversity of subjects, and therefore the wide range of illustration styles I can use.
Scroll bellow the good news, from last to first.
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