CURA Issue 22: Boundless

For CURA's 22nd issue, Boundless, which features the notion of gender revolution, I decided to create graphics that tied into the idea of dismantling the gender binary and revolutionizing the way we see gender. Therefore, when creating the graphics, in order to differentiate from the posts made for CURA's 21st issue that focused on the prison systems in America, I decided that the color scheme for CURA's 22nd issue should be made in a rainbow pastel color scheme to connect more with the LGBTQ communnity. With the last CURA issue featuring a dark color palette for their social media graphics, this color scheme contrast allowed any individuals who looked at our socials to see that CURA was now entering a new issue and so called theme.

Given that CURA is Fordham’s Multimedia Literary Magazine of Art and Action, for this issue in particular, the first thing on the agenda was to promote and advertise the submission deadline to the public for the artwork that would be featured in the issue. In leading up to the submission deadline, the graphics created displayed a sort of countdown, that would remind individuals how much time they had left to submit their work. After the submission deadline was met, I decided to highlight artists and creators that have worked toward similar goals like the ones we hoped CURA's 22nd issue would meet. Some of these creator's were Indya Moore, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Raquel Willis, ALOK Vaid-Menon, Gottmik, and Kehlani. The additional posts made to CURA's social media accounts were then sort of created to promote events CURA was having either to donate to the magazine's GoFundMe page or to promote Q and A live stream events.

For the designing aspect of the graphics for these creators, I normally followed the same format in which it would depict a picture of the artists/creators followed by a quote, which related to concepts of gender revolution. Additionally, in order to stick to a similar theme for CURA's social media accounts, and keep the feed aesthetic the same, all of these graphics also included a rainbow pastel background. As for the graphics that were created to promote events CURA was having, the background aspect stayed the same and each graphic made was created with information that was needed to inform individuals about the upcoming event.