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1984

brief

A cover and street poster for Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Red throughout, because it had to be: blood, danger, warning, revolution. The cover pulls you in quietly. The poster hits you in the face.

sketch

Pencil sketches of four cover ideas, including a crying face, a watching eye and a cigarette in a glass.Texture, medium, red.
A page of sketches with red-pencilled eyes, Big Brother and Groupthink notes.

process

Render: Not Your Brother in heavy black lettering over a red eye and 1984 in grungy white.Filthy and chaotic, like Winston's world.
Render: a red poster of a staring face with black shapes pouring from its eyes over rows of white hands.
Render: Groupthink in white scrawl on red, with an eye, a megaphone and a fractured face.
The full Nineteen Eighty-Four cover laid flat: a black back with the blurb, a red spine, and a scribbled front built around a watching eye.
The 08.06.49 Watch Out poster: a black eye radiating lines on red, with the date across the top.

final

The book standing in grey light, showing its black back cover and red spine.A rebellion poster doesn't announce itself.
The book standing in grey light, showing its scribbled front cover with the red eye.
The red Watch Out poster lying on a dark timber floor.

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