VOGUE
OVERVIEW
Inspired by monologues from Sam Levinston’s Assassination Nation and using imagery from September 2019’s Vogue, I developed this personal project as commentary on feminine beauty displayed through media compared to reality.
DETAILS
Inspired by monologues from Sam Levinston’s Assassination Nation and using imagery from September 2019’s Vogue, I developed this personal project as commentary on feminine beauty displayed through media compared to reality. I manipulated the images with a scanning bed to express “image” for a woman and how convoluted that concept can be. I used two contrasting typefaces, Gill Sans and Playfair Display, to help express the expectations of a woman (a refined serif) versus reality (a blunt sans-serif). The mixture of these elements creates a jarring but interesting piece, much like the inspiration behind it.
CHALLENGE
The biggest challenge with this personal project was taking images with a preestablished narrative and creating one that is completely different from it. It was also difficult to create powerful typography layouts with imagery that was as dynamic as what I created.
