To continue in their message of spreading hope and respect, ES Magazine have now placed the cover art for each version of The London United Issue onto a limited edition t-shirt. 70% of the proceeds from the tees will go directly to The Dispossessed Fund, which helps grassroots charities tackle poverty, inequality and exclusion across the capital.
Scroll down to read more about the amazing designers involved in this project below or head straight to ES Magazine’s Everpress store to shop the collection.
Ai Weiwei
An activist, architect, curator and filmmaker, Ai became widely known in Britain after his sunflower seeds installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2010. More recently, Ai held an extensive exhibition in the RA last October to present some of his most famous works to date. His bold work explores a multitude of challenging themes from censorship to human rights to war and terror.
Ai’s cover art, Odyssey is an excerpt from a very recent exhibition in Jerusalem.
Antony Gormley
British sculptor Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his works which investigate the relationship of the human body to space. He is most commonly known as the creator of the Angel of The North and Quantum Cloud.
His design was inspired by his reflections on how ‘resilience and common sympathy occurs with every precious existence,’ and how ‘the liquidity of consciousness gives immediate access to joy and trauma.’
Anish Kapoor
Designer of The Orbit in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic park and exclusive rights holder of the world’s “blackest black”, Anish Kapoor’s sculptures are renowned for challenging gravity, depth, and perception.
When asked about the message behind his design for ES’s cover, Anish said: ‘We grieve together and then we know, together we must glow.’
Jamie Hewlett
Jamie Hewlett is an English comic book artist and designer. He is best known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Jamie explained that his design was inspired by ‘The way people pull together is a multicoloured show of strength”.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a renowned fine-art photographer based in London. His photographs draw inspiration from his surroundings and saw him be the first photographer to ever win the Turner prize back in 2000.
“London, Light, Hope” was shot in a moment of inspiration during his journey home on the tube.
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