GOLDEN BUG
GOLDEN BUG
2019. BOGOTA COLOMBIA
The protagonist of the story after squandering everything he had never lost the joy of living. Thus, through the illustration, the layout design and the creation of the title typography, the reader is shown how to see life in pink.
Media: Digital printing
Size: 30 cm * 14 cm
Copies: 1
The Gold-Bug is a luxury reissue of the story of Edgar Allan Poe. The story was reinterpreted and the traditional association of the writer with the dark was left aside.
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Life in Pink
There is a cultural relationship between Edgar Alan Poe and the dark aesthetic. In this re-edition, I tried to take a step out of that perception and create a new visual universe for this story. Life in pink is about the distortion of the reality and the problems with a filter.
After reading the Golden Bug for the first time I was intrigued by the mains characters’ approach to his problems. It is a story of hope and light after the dark. With those ideas in mind, I created an inspirational mood board that I used to develop the visual narrative. It is a mystery story and in order to keep the suspense, I decided to illustrate just the spaces instead of the characters
