Trill Mag Article Content: Classic Novels

Official Illustration for Article Content

About the Publication

Trill Mag is a non profit online magazine that allocates to the Gen Z demographic. The magazine consists of articles and artwork surrounding news, entertainment, culture, and other categories of content. As a graphic design intern the task at hand is designing artwork to accompany the articles. The article entitled: Want To Read The Classics? Here’s Where To Start.’ by Bethan Croft is about the recent controversy of a social media influencer’s content containing alleged pedophilic material.

To depict the artwork for the article the main focus was highlighting the works of novelists Oscar Wilde & Franz Kafka. A collage approach was suitable for this artwork because it’s a tribute to each other wear the themes of their novels collide. Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Kafka’s The Castle serve as the subject matter for the article content. Both novels revolve around the concept of unobtainable goals. Dorian Gray will never have eternal beauty and K would never gain access to the castle and it’s authorities. The official image is very playful in composition where Wilde is standing in front of a painting that was commissioned in response to his novel. Kafka is seen holding the novel he never lived to see published where a castle is in the background submerged in his mind as a metaphor. Green was the over all color scheme for the artwork’s sinister design. Below are a few mockups that feature the artwork on display as book genre label in a bookstore and a framed print on a desk with books about the authors.