Chapter 8 | WORKS OF ART
The first masterpiece is the logo for the NRC Vandaag podcast. It was designed by Dutch illustrator Seb Agresti. Through the podcast, people can listen to world news at home or on the go. Seb Agresti illustrates this through the view from a window. We find ourselves in the journalist’s or listener’s office, with a cup of coffee or tea in hand. Outside, the road to the world extends, symbolized by the skyline of a global city. The perspective/view is slightly asymmetrical: the red road runs diagonally to a vanishing point just left of center. All shapes, including the clouds, are simplified and crystal clear. The enormous sun, which colors the path to the horizon red, makes the view of the world even more impressive.
I thought Seb Agresti’s design was so inventive that I made a (symmetrical) variation on it.
In the painting ‘Wanderer above the Mists’ from 1817 by the german artist Caspar David Friedrich, a hiker gazes at the awe-inspiring surroundings from a mountaintop. Because the mountains are shrouded in mist, you cannot see the horizon, but it is there, at the hiker’s and at the same time our eye level. These kinds of spectacular perspectives are often used in games.
EXTRA: Make a variation on this subject. Perhaps you’ll create a heroic or dangerous warrior on a tower or the roof of a skyscraper.
