Girls with Chess Editorial Illustration

Girls with Chess Editorial Illustration
by Mengyao GUO

• Awarded April 15, 2024
• CLIENT: Mengyao Guo
• 9.743

Girls with Chess is an editorial illustration created for articles and campaigns about gender equality. The artwork shows two girls playing a game of chess. One girl topples the King piece while the other watches. The toppled King represents the dismantling of patriarchal norms. Two contrasting colors, orange and blue, are used to explore binary identities and to suggest different situational states. The illustration was produced as a high-resolution digital image, so the work can be shared online and printed at flexible sizes.