Billie Eilish Editorial Spread
Turning personal into professional.
2020 Gold Addy Award Winner.
The solution wasn’t black and white.
The main focus of this spread was to give the pages as much character as Billie Eilish has. She is a super unique, weird, postmodernist type musical artist, which is truly reflected in her music videos and fashion. Because Eilish has a vast amount of character, this spread took a lot of work to make it approachable, readable, and gripping.
Playing around with many different concepts led to an end goal that is rooted in a postmodernist approach yet clean enough to be easily read.
Fun fact.
Using a blackletter type font and pairing it with a picture of Eilish herself created depth in this piece and showed a possible collaboration of elements - these being type and picture to create a cohesive word. Then on top of that, illustrations were added to Eilish's jumper as a fun easter egg hunt. These illustrations were inspired by anything from Eilish’s songs, to her clothing style, to how other artists have interpreted her look.