Editorial Cover

Medium - Digital Illustration

Class - Illustration

Spring 2026

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The New Yorker is well known for hiring professional illustrators to design their covers. For this project, we were instructed to come up with a design as if the New Yorker had hired us. This involved researching a bit on what the New Yorker typically had in their designs. Most of the time, their designs reflected the current social or political environment that reflected it's time period. For mine, I chose to do the topic of media control. I've always had a dislike for news outlets and media. While they're helpful for learning what is happening around the world at literally any given moment (a feat of human development), it's very easy for people to use this kind of power to manipulate others by tinting the story to their worldview. This idea is portrayed well into the poster; the shattered screen of the TV representing the brokeness of some outlets the hands on either side controlling the puppeteer strings as if controling the mind of people, and the brain helplessly tangled in such strings. I believe it's a real danger, and the best way to combat it is to listen to multiple verified sources rather than trusting anything you see online.