iDIE | 6th spread | Forced upon Death

Final FuD spread:





I found a strong quote which would be emphasizing the spread itself and tried to transfer it typographically:

'Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder'


For me personally the scissor/ipod ideas was working especially with the title of the magazine and ipod generation etc. I reworked some of the images:





My next step was to brainstorm ideas and since I wanted to use photography especially for this and being inspired by these two artist, I started taking pictures of different 'random' objects.
Initial ideas were a sink+blood and scissors+iPod earplugs (->iDIE/iMazing):


Forced upon Death being my next spread, I immediately connected two artist with this topic: Damian Hirst and Helen Chadwick.
Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde.


His use of very strong imagery and crossing boundaries within art is appealing. Taboo topics like death are looking more banal.

Then there is Helen Chadwick. Helen Chadwick (1953 – March 15, 1996) was a British artist. She has often been identified as a feminist, with several of her works addressing the role and image of woman in society. So in her earlier work she questioned the role of the female body in art as a decorative object, just as decorative and aesthetic ideas about art themselves had been questioned in the 20th century.