Unforgettable Gigs

Laura continues, "But rather than focus on the music, they wanted the college itself to be the celebrity, and to make the cover a broader welcoming doorway into the magazine, so the main building featured in the design is Swarthmore’s original building at the centre of the campus, Parrish Hall.

 

This was to be the Spring/Summer issue of the magazine so they also requested a very spring like illustration with vibrant colour and lots of organic shapes, trees and flowers. I took inspiration from various psychedelic music posters, many of which use Art Nouveau elements of organic vines and flowers, and created a border of swirling shapes which lead up to some large soaring like daffodils at the top. The building in the centre is distorted and elongated to fit the psychedelic feel.

 

I put together a few different compositions for the artwork, one of which is shown here that is more ornate with more swirls and leaves around the border area. The final artwork the client chose extends the border to the sides of the magazine whilst still retaining the swirling shapes of the original design."