When sciencefiction, philosophy and fiction meet, you get something like this! For the Dutch Filosofie Magazine I made the cover, and illustrated two articles. It was a short deadline but really fun subject matter!
You can read more about it as you scroll down.
You can read more about it as you scroll down.
The big question of this issue is:
Can there be truth without fiction?
For the cover I turned the question around a bit: What if we throw away all fiction?
I thought up the most iconic, but least trademarked objects, animals and other fictional content, which the people could discard from their very rational skyscraper.
P.S. I’m really happy with the neon orange spot color the magazine chose for the title!
Can there be truth without fiction?
For the cover I turned the question around a bit: What if we throw away all fiction?
I thought up the most iconic, but least trademarked objects, animals and other fictional content, which the people could discard from their very rational skyscraper.
P.S. I’m really happy with the neon orange spot color the magazine chose for the title!
The first article i illustrated writes about different well known philosophers and their relationship with fiction. Philosophers often use fiction as a writing form. Or as a way of making an idea more clear. It underlines the importance of visualising something that’s not (yet) real. For these four illustrations I portrayed four persons, but tried to not make it about the persons, but about the idea.
Top left: The fantastic Utopia by Thomas More.
Top right: Plato’s allegory of the cave.
Bottom left: Sarah Haraway sees every connection with (technical) man-made objects as a form of cyborgism.
Bottom right: Soren Kierkegaard uses different personas to depict different perspectives on a subject.
Top left: The fantastic Utopia by Thomas More.
Top right: Plato’s allegory of the cave.
Bottom left: Sarah Haraway sees every connection with (technical) man-made objects as a form of cyborgism.
Bottom right: Soren Kierkegaard uses different personas to depict different perspectives on a subject.
The second article is all about science fiction. To give the readers something familiar, I drew a archetype sci-fi illustration of a spaceship entering a cargo hall. it has stars, measuring equipment, dramatic lighting and fire is bursting from the space ships’ motors.
Two wise and elderly people look at it from the foreground.
Two wise and elderly people look at it from the foreground.
But here’s the twist! The article says that underneath alot of well-known science fiction stories, there is often a philosophical idea.
If philosophy is the main course, the science fiction is the marinade that covers it all. That’s why I drew the pilot from the spaceship in the first illustration putting of his helmet.
And who’s this? Surprise It’s Rene Descartes!
If philosophy is the main course, the science fiction is the marinade that covers it all. That’s why I drew the pilot from the spaceship in the first illustration putting of his helmet.
And who’s this? Surprise It’s Rene Descartes!
