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All The Pretty Things

All The Pretty Things
Design exercise, illustration, image manipulation, and type

The title and the "cotton-candy" colors implies a naive perception of the world. I was inspired by BP's chief executive's speech "I would like my life back" while the ongoing oil spill was threaten to destroy the environment and end the livelihood of many hard-working people.

This project symbolizes hope and subtly denounces the evils of an unregulated industry. The same industry that has no moral restrains, cares not for the well being of it's workers, nor the environment, and it's blind to human suffering. A profit-concupiscent industry, fed by congress with incentives and tax breaks. The oil Industry.

All The Pretty Things, design exercise , image manipulation, illustration and type.
The white doves lack detail because they symbolize hope. But, hope is not quantitative. The undefined quality of the type echoes that feeling.
Eye and dove, detail.

Empty, blind eyes, detail.
Licentious: lacking legal or moral restrains.
White collar, blood stained, detail.
All The Pretty Things
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All The Pretty Things

This project symbolizes hope and subtly denounces the evils of an unregulated industry. The same industry that has no moral restrains, cares not Read More

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