©2019 Balbusso Twins conceptual illustrations for 1843 The Economist Magazine August-September 2019
Article by Sophie Ratcliffe: "Never gonna give you up" As Sophie Ratcliffe faced the death of her father, syncopated pop and clockwork smiles became the soundtrack of her teenage years.
The topic: the relationship between music and pain.
We built the forms with illustrator and colored with photoshop. A mix of figurative and abstract forms, geometric shapes that allude to real objects, musical instruments, coffin. The essential color palette accentuates the strength of the image and the optical illusion of the textures.
We built the forms with illustrator and colored with photoshop. A mix of figurative and abstract forms, geometric shapes that allude to real objects, musical instruments, coffin. The essential color palette accentuates the strength of the image and the optical illusion of the textures.