The Financial Times
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Client: The Financial Times
Project Name: FT Weekend Magazine: AI Will Tear Us Apart
Industry: Editorial
Category: Illustration
For the FT Weekend Magazine, we illustrated the 2023 Easter weekend headliner story written by Ian Hogarth, a tech investor and early advocate of AI. He writes about the threat AI poses to humanity if it is not controlled. Commissioned for an opener image, 4 spot illustrations and several hand-drawn charts to be used for both digital and print. The brief was to 'create something ominous with terrifying unknown power - creepy and awesome in an abstract way'.
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Art Direction: Shannon Gibson