Pencil Compositions for Varoom Magazine – Obsession
Rainbow Machine 1.9.5
Rainbow Emitting World
Category: Assignment 2 – Research & Process
Editorial Illustration – Moodboard
Editorial Inspiration – Research
Sinus Milieu
Looking at “Sinus Milieu’s” for my target audience research helped me a lot finding information about who would buy the “Varoom Magazine”.
In general the milieus “Liberal Intellectuals”, “Performers”, “Hedonists”, “Precarious”, “Traditionals”, “Experimentalists” and “Socio-Ecologicals” are consuming magazines on a regular basis (in 2007) that are slightly related to a magazine about illustrations.
All the other would rather read about gardening, politics, do-it-yourself, crime, glamour, health, food or sex.
Reading magazine in leisure 2007
(“Liberal Intellectuals” and “Performers” summarised in the diagram as “Postmaterielle”.)
Characteristic Themes 2007
(Symposium „Medienrepertoires sozialer Milieus im medialen Wandel“ Perspektiven einer medienübergreifenden Nutzungsforschung, Campus Insight, Hans-Bredow-Institue für Medienforschung an der Universität Hamburg, 12.11.2008)
Looking at the milieus above I would keep the “Post-Material”(“Liberal Intellectuals” & “Performers”) and “Experimentalists”on a shortlist.
Post-Material
Post-Materialists are usually between 24 and 31, prefer a healthy and culture lifestyle and attach importance to education, environment protection and animal welfare.
They are more into superior then into tangible material things and consist of a wealthy society with less problems then other.
That’s why their cultural, social and intellectual needs are relatively strongly pronounced.
Experimentalists
The attitude of the is quite different. This milieu in general is looking for diverse experiences.
Experimentalists want to explore new things and create freedom. They live a excessive lifestyle and do not worry about their own future.
Usually the are open minded, sociable, tolerant and cultured.
They go to the cinema and on exhibitions but also smoke, drink and party.
They are mostly younger then 30, live by their parents or in small apartments and are still in school, studying, work as executive workers or freelancers.
In contrast to the settled Post-Materialists the buy spontaneously and spend all their money on music, art and cultural- or outdoor activities.
(Arbeitsinstrument für vernetzte Marketing- und Kommunikations- Planung, publisuisse, www.blog.zhdk.ch/loop/files/2011/11/sinus_broschuere_d.pdf)
User Persona
Editorial Illustration – Inspiration
Ori Toor
“Cover, editorial, and spot illustrations for Anxy Magazine’s workaholism issue”
(Workaholism, Ori Toor, www.oritoor.com/anxy-magazine-workaholism-issue.)
Ori Toor’s colourful, dreamy and psychedelically illustrations perfectly fit to the ongoing tunnel experience of the depicted topic “workaholism” and the magazine itself.
The magazine writes about the “inner worlds, […] personal struggles [and]the fears that fool us into believing that the rest of the world is normal and we’re not.”
(What we’re doing about it, Anxy, https://anxymag.com)
Davide Bonazzi
Freelance Illustrator from Bologna, Italia.
Representation of political, social and economical issues in narrative illustrations.
Disposal
(Disposal, Davide Bonazzi, www.davidebonazzi.com/portfolio.html)
Security vs. privacy
(Security vs. privacy, Davide Bonazzi, www.davidebonazzi.com/portfolio.html)
Searching for ET life
(Searching for ET life, Davide Bonazzi, www.davidebonazzi.com/portfolio.html)
Alec Doherty
London Illustrator and label artist for “Partizan Brewing”.
Editorial for the International New York Times about the great Pacific garbage patch.
(Alec Doherty, www.alecdoherty.com)
New York Times article about water contamination at the Rio Olympics.
(Alec Doherty, www.alecdoherty.com)
Alec Doherty explores my chosen subject, “plastic and its relationship to the nature” for this assignment in context to certain events like the olympics in Rio and a research about garbage patches floating in the sea in colourful compositions of pictorially and alienated illustrations.
More inspiring illustrations and images on my topic
(Environmental Impact, Arnaldo Jimenez, www.behance.net/gallery/1743826/Turn-Your-Tap-Campaign)
(Emotional Trashbag Figures, Khalil Chishtee, www.mymodernmet.com/emotional-trash-bag-figures/)
(The Digital Dump, Unknown, www.thisisnthappiness.com/post/1301220477/the-digital-dump-detail)