Billboard Magazine: Billboard Influences
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SUMMARY
Music is made of references. Magazines are made of printing dots. Based on these truths, we designed this campaign for Billboard magazine.
These are ads that show a music icon in dotted images. And the dots themselves are small illustrations of artists who have influenced the career and style of the music icons portrayed.
A key shows the percentage of each influence, like in the CMYK color model.
The color black is always shown with a bit of irony, in a reference to the behavior of a pop icon.
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