2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Design > Front Cover-Photo Illustration > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

Brenan Sharp, Design Director

Entry details

The Coming Storm

Issue or publication date: Winter (Nov-Dec-Jan) 2019-2020
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: ABAJournal.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine for the American Bar Association and signature publication for the legal profession. The Journal is an award-winning, dynamic multimedia platform delivering legal journalism with an independent voice. The Journal informs, engages and stimulates important conversations that define the American legal system and help it respond to important issues of the day. The Journal and its companion website, newsletters and podcasts ensure it has among the largest readership of any legal publication in the world. While the Journal serves as a key benefit to members of the American Bar Association, it maintains editorial independence and integrity, allowing it to provide critical coverage of the trends, people and business of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

"The Coming Storm" is our cover story on lawyers who've resolved to do their part to reverse climate change. The purpose of this cover is threefold. As winters get warmer, weather gets weirder and seasons such as fall and spring are continually diminished, we wanted to immediately demonstrate the drastic weather which is created from dramatic shifts from intense cold and warm fronts. Since it's the most common weather phenomenon for the majority of our readership, we decided the best example would be a tornado. We chose to depict a mighty one, mid-action. However, when viewing more closely, readers should begin to see the tornado is comprised of actual lawsuits, a myriad of which spirals all the way up to the heavens. It is then realized this looming threat is actually meant for the captains of industry responsible for this very weather, mercilessly tearing through their oil refineries and polluting factories. Lastly, this cover illustration is meant to serve as a call to action for all lawyers to follow suit by literally filing suit and therefore introduce greater regulation which ultimately leads to the common goal of climate change reversal.

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