Trill Mag Article Content: Free Palestine

Cover Illustration for Article Content

Alternate Dimensions 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: Israel Vs. Nazi Germany: Are Comparisons Valid Or Anti-Semitic? by Michael Fischer is about the war in Gaza and the comparisons of the Holocaust between the Israeli and Palestinian people.

To depict the artwork for the article the main focus was highlighting the impacts of the war instead of villainizing either group in the war: orphaning children and destruction of property. The style is meant to evoke awareness, atrocity, and carnage. The official image is more cartoon-like in showing the distressing scene of an orphaned boy taking in the terrorism of his country and people. As the cover image for the article, an eye-catching aspect was applied with showing a representation of war through a child’s perspective. He is dressed in his Palestinian flag to associate his ethnicity and he is holding an Israeli assault rifle upright to distinguish the catalyst of the war: gun violence. The boy is afraid, and distraught but is not angry as he stands in the blood of his fallen community. Bombings are happening in the background with a landscape of debris and rubble in the foreground. Inspiration was taken from news footage covering the cataclysm. A thumbnail sketch illustrating the concept is shown below indicating themes present in the official image. Concept illustrations down below approach the topic in a propaganda style with one harkening a style from the Les Míserables musical poster by Émile Bayard and Gustave Brion with a tagline “War Births Hunger” to emphasize poverity as a consequence of war.