Client: JASS (Just Associates) | Role: Illustration, Hand Lettering
A year end card in English and Spanish, for Just Associates - honouring bell hooks, whose words, thoughts, work and being have been central to so many of us and our movements.
Illustration of a group of people’s faces - speaking, standing in solidarity, supporting each other and organizing, around the words “Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change - bell hooks” which are hand lettered and in shades of teal, purple, pink, orange and yellow.
On the top right is a person with light brown skin and dark brown hair wearing a teal mask looking ahead. Below them is a person with navy hair, brown skin wearing magenta lipstick. They are mid speech and are wearing a yellow nose ring and huge statement earrings. Below them is a patterned teal star. Below that is a person with light skin and black hair, with a side fringe. They have a mole above their lip and are wearing brown lipstick and an orange top. Next to them you can see their hands reaching out interlocked with a person on the left who has brown skin and is wearing a mustard yellow hijab. They are looking at the person their hands are interlocked with and are wearing magenta lipstick. Next to them is a person wearing a teal polka dot top and a blue mask. They are looking ahead and have their hair styled in twists. Behind them are a bunch of leaves in shades of green. Next to them is a person with light brown skin, in a blue top wearing hand woven traditional jewellery on their neck and head, with their hair styled in a low braided bun. Above them is a person holding a megaphone with blue spirals - similar to the JASS logo surrounding them. They are mid speech and there is a blue speech bubble appearing from them. They have short dark blonde hair, brown skin and have vitiligo. Above them is a person looking ahead, mid speech. They have light skin and dark brown wavy hair. There are orange sparks appearing as they speak. Above them are two people standing against a path and some large green branches. The person on the left is wearing a yellow top and a choker. They also have a gold septum ring. They have short brown-magenta coloured hair. The person next to them has their hands raised in a fist to the right and is wearing an orange top. They are wearing blue square spectacles and have short brown hair. They also have some facial hair on their chin. Behind them on the path there are multiple people with their fists raised, some holding a placard. There’s an orange-yellow sun in the distance.