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Editorial Brief

For this brief I chose to work from Carl Sagans' article Why we need to understand science. 

Here is the LINK

The article illustrates the issues in education for the future generation and the divergence of scientists working on beneficial technological advances into the arms race and nuclear weapons development.

I have selected a couples of pages of my thumbnails, I dont think I should upload 60+ thumbnails so I've chosen these. 

From These I picked a few Illustrations to pursue and the following were most relevant to the article. Studying editorial art I am focusing on word association and simple symbology as well as very straight forward images.

Below are a some Drafts

My favourites are the scientist with arms raised, meaning the arms race and also their back against the wall as they have no option but to commit or lose their jobs.

I like the ants as well as they are a symbol for organisation and a sort of hive mentality. One breaks away and finds a reward in seeking knowledge as he the donut is on the book.

And finally, the children with question marks. This almost seemed to be Sagans' worst fear in the article, the complacence of children and the stunting of curiosity. Their silence in the classroom. So I did the emptiness in their minds replaced by the question why? and also I used the animation chart to have them spell out why. An example below