Project Role | Student, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Skills | Hand illustration, Photoshop, photography.

Client | Arem Duplissis; Creative Director of The New York Times Magazine.

Objective | Develop a cover for based on the subject ‘The Best Ideas of 2014’.

Concept | A reference to handwritten grocery lists a few items checked off. Instead of normal items, the included text would consist of major world issues. Crossing them out meant that they had been solved somehow.

THE WORK

Final image.

Process.

Rough sketch.

Early iteration.

Examples of previous issues for reference.