I designed covers for TIME magazine as an academic project. Each cover represented a person who had a great influence in the world. The theme I had kept for each cover was to break free from using people in the design and use objects instead to represent the people I had chosen. I have shown some idea sketches I had done to reach the final outcomes that I am showing on this page.
This cover represents Briton Hadden, who was one of the co-founders of TIME magazine who never got enough recognition for his hard work and efforts. To represent Briton Hadden, I chose to play with one of the very first TIME magazine covers (as this was when he was alive) and also trying to express rolling credits at the end of a movie, where names of the people involved in the movie production are displayed, but often ignored by the general public.
I also did a cover design for Virginia Woolf to open discussion about mental health. The famous writer suffered from mental health issues in a time when proper treatment was not available. It is said that she created such brilliant work suffering from Mania. She ended up drowning herself in a lake with stones packed into the pockets of her clothes.
This third cover design was for South Korean president Moon Jae In. I used miniature art photography to design this TIME magazine cover.
After watching a documentary about the FYRE festival mishap, I was inspired to create a TIME cover for Billy McFarland and discuss issues related to the dangers of social media and influencers on social media, expectations VS reality and millennials.
The last cover designed for this project represents Reed Hastings, one of the founders of Netflix and how he is changing the way people watch TV and movies as well as some controversial issues regarding data collection and usage.
This project involved a lot of research on current social issues and finding the right person to represent each of these issues. A very short summary of the project is only shown on this page. The final outcomes were a part of the project, but understanding the work that goes behind a single cover design was also a learning outcome.