Assignment & brand
The starting point.
Reinterpret the magazine cover through contrasting visual treatments. The retained series includes pop-art, floral Art Nouveau, color-and-silhouette, collage and geometric directions.
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One cover. Five visual languages.
Explorations in editorial hierarchy, visual movements and the personality of a magazine cover.
Assignment context
Trends in Design · FIU
Credits
Cover studies from Anton’s coursework. Incorporated editorial imagery retains its original credits; the Rihanna source artwork is credited to Lorna Simpson.
Work presented
Editorial design studies. No ESSENCE commission or publication is established.
Insight & approach
The thought behind it.
This is a study of visual language rather than documented audience research. Across the series, the masthead provides a recurring anchor while color, density, type and image relationships change the mood and reading order.
Concept & execution
How it takes shape.
The five covers show how a publication’s presence can shift from expressive collage to disciplined geometry. Each is shown at its original proportions. The project concerns layout and art-direction studies incorporating source imagery, not a claim that Anton photographed the subjects or created every underlying illustration.
Development / The thinking in motion
Exploring a cover through different visual languages
The five covers explore different ways to organize the same publication identity. Pop-art contrast, floral ornament, silhouette, collage and diagonal geometry each create a different balance between image, masthead and supporting text.
The masthead moves from a prominent top position to the bottom or a diagonal axis, changing where the eye enters the composition. These are parallel design directions. The retained work does not establish a sequence in which one replaced another.
Coursework layout and art-direction studies incorporating existing imagery. Original image credits, including Lorna Simpson's, remain part of the work. No selected winning direction or publication by ESSENCE is established.
The original work.
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