Editorial & Illustration
Pausa para un café
/// Overview
Two covers for Pausa para un café, a yearly coffee magazine from Concordia, Antioquia: a painted illustration that wraps around issue Nº 6 and a small 3D coffee town for Nº 7. One rule runs through both: coffee is the place, white is the pause.
/// The Challenge
Pausa para un café is a yearly magazine about Colombian coffee culture, made in Concordia by Carlos Mario Salazar. The name sets the brief: a pause, around coffee. Both covers wrap around the whole magazine, so the back and the front had to read as one scene.
/// The System
Both covers follow one rule: coffee is the place, white is the pause. In 2022 the land is a coffee farm, the clouds spiral toward the words "Tómate una pausa", and the figures are drawn in coloured line with a halftone shade instead of black outlines. In 2023 the same idea became a town of coffee machines, lit in pastel with no black, where the only white is the steam.
/// The Process
The 2022 cover started as a pencil layout of the whole wrap, went through a softer colour pass and ended with coloured line, halftone shading and the words set into the clouds. The 2023 town was blocked out in grey in Cinema 4D, then lit and rendered as one scene for the back and the front. I also laid out the brochures for two of the client's coffee events on one shared grid.