THE GUARDIAN GUIDE COVER - ELYSSIUM

by jimmy turrell on Saturday 17 August 2013



Here's today's Guardian Guide cover that I've just created. Its for an article on the new movie from Matt Damon and Neil Blomkamp (the director of District 9)Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, Damon's character takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

I tried to give the cover a bold, political poster like feel with earth represented as a scuzzy, ruined, damaged (but defiant) planet and the Elyssuim space station as a perfect glowing beacon. Click on the image enlarge...

SNEAK PEEK OF TOMORROW'S GUARDIAN GUIDE COVER

by jimmy turrell on Friday 16 August 2013

Here's a sneak peek of tomorrow's Guardian Guide cover. It's much more typographic than my usual work but I really enjoyed working on it.