Brief_An Editorial illustration for The Guiardian’s Saturday Magazine, for an article on Eating Disorders entitled ‘The Crying Game’. The illustration has to communicate young people struggling with self-image, self-esteem and self worth who often find solace in dangerous forms of behaviour.

Solution_ Taking the ideology of the perfect unachievable figure, communicated through the image of a barbie doll, coupled with the tightening grip of a measuring tape and a gagged mouth. I chose to incorporate the article title into the illustration- the typography inspired originally by the pink bubblegum Barie logo it self which uses a similar brush script typeface, however here the typography is washed out, bleeding, and full of texture looking eroded and weathered, mimicking 1950s pulp fiction book covers. Click to See High Resolution Image