After reading through the text we were given 2 hours to come up with an initial layout for our own op-ed illustration. After feedback from tutors I then made changes which I felt improved this design. This quick way of working was different to how I would have usually gone about doing this brief and at first I struggled to create a layout which I felt would work in a op-ed form. As I hadn't done work which had to get across a specific message in a simple way, I found it hard to think of how I could show this information in an interesting and bold design.
The two images in the article which kept repeating for me were people and bats (bats having a flu which could pass to humans). I tried to show this idea using these two basic elements and sketched a very rough layout of how I felt this could work.
After getting feedback on this idea I tried to edit the layout more and was given the artist Noma Bar as a possible influence when doing this. His work features simple designs and colours when bringing together few key elements of the subject he is working with. This makes bold and thought provoking pieces, which I tried to achieve by changing my original idea.
In the end I feel that my final image wouldn't be suitable for an op-ed page. The key points of the article, that this flu would spread and affect the world was not shown. The image is simple but without strongly putting across a clear message like Noma Bar's work. After tutor feedback I could see that it didn't have the main theme of the article (effecting the world) but just showed a connection with bats and people. It needed to be clearer and have more information but still in the simple, subtle way it would have to be in a real op-ed piece.
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