Time to Act
Perspective Magazine
September, 2015
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Client
Spoon Agency
Art Direction
Lars Jenssen
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About
Set of illustrations and cover illustration for Perspective magazine published by the Norwegian Refugee Council. The feature article dealt with the issue of more than 26 million people displaced by disasters such as floods and storms every year.
Illustrations was drawn, inked and colored with Wacom Intuos in Adobe Photoshop CS6.
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Cover
About
The issue of more than 26 million people displaced
by natural disasters, represented by a family
and their crossing for help
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p.10
Opening
About
Art director wanted a landscape where we see some of the climate change and disasters.
Draught, flood, typhoon, earthquake, tsunami and volcano, and a small group of refugees running
to make a dramatic scenery to be the opening.
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p.12-13
Family
About
For this illustration, we meet a family fleeing a flooding. Water reaching up their legs.
Mother, father, two kids and a dog. Father carrying their belonging on his head.
Fleeing their home in the background.
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p.14-15
On the line
About
For this illustrations, we see the same family waiting in a line of refugees outside a city border.
Soldiers guarding a roadblock, and a group of people fleeing from a volcano and war scene.
Buildings on fire, tanks, soldiers etc.
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p.16-17
The slum
About
The family arrives in a slum. We see the card board shelters etc.
On the right some workers build a more solid building.
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p.18-19
Changes
About
For this illustrations, Lars wanted an island society sinking in the sea. Drowning citys and fields and farms.
In the other side, a market scene. One man selling a shovel to a buyer for some cash, like a positive situation.
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p.20-21
Approved
About
A meeting in the UN and a hand taking the letter with a "approved" stamp.
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p.22-23
Time to act
About
A final scene where several organizations help refugees. Trucks, Field hospital, etc.
Lars asked for using the logos of organizations on buildings, tents, cars, poster, hospital (like Red Cross) etc.
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