To start the year off here's a new cover illustration for the New Year 2025 issue of
BBC Science Focus. This one was a quick turnaround with a brief based on the concept of the
Biggest Breakthroughs of the Century and required an esoteric creative visual with some bold typography. I worked quickly on a series of first visuals, some included here, to find something that felt right for the abstract brief. After the first round the simpler monochrome visual of a sphere with light 'breaking through' was chosen to develop and I worked with art director Joe Eden on various type treatments and headlines - love how the yellow that Joe selected pops against the black and white. I also worked up a horizontal spread version with a more dynamic 3d type approach for the title. All of the visuals were finalised in Photoshop using 3d models, abstract patterns and particles created in Cinema 4d. You can see the work on the main site
here and previous work for Focus
here.
