• US$190

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• 16 designers

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Graphic Design Brief

I host a podcast called Seeking Context and we are releasing a series of episodes called Moments of Light, looking back at the last 50 episodes of the shown and highlighting bright moments when the best of humanity shown through in my interviews. I would like to have new cover art for this series, both for rectangular YouTube Thumbnails (1280 x 720) and square Thumbnails for iTunes and other podcast platforms (4000 x 4000).

The theme "Moments of Light" is based on Rumi's Poem Elephant in the Dark, in which God is imagined as an elephant hidden in a dark room. People that enter the room can touch the elephant but only understand it from their own experience. At the end of the poem, he says "if we all lit a candle, and went in together, we could see it". I'd like to have some sort of visual that shows an elephant in a dark tent or outside at night lit by the light of multiple people standing around it. I would also like the moon to be incorporated in the design.

I have included a jpeg of the cover art we used for Episode 40: The Elephant and the Skunk as inspiration. The color scheme you use can be similar, and you can see our podcast branding at www.seekingcontext.com.

There will be 5 episodes of this Moments of Light Series, and I'd like a format for the cover art that can show "Episode 1", "Episode 2", etc.

I have also recorded a video explaining my design requirements here:
https://www.loom.com/share/3eff289c0b07491aa400799aedf0897f

And here is a link to a Figma file we use for designing our Website, where you can pull the Logo as needed to use for your design:
https://www.figma.com/file/XY1FA7wcKBDtABqZwaYkgY/Seeking-Context---Off-Grid?node-id=602%3A204&t=DDnuY5alK1iiT2Fa-1

Thanks,
Justin Wieland
Host, Seeking Context

PS...here is the poem:

Some Hindus have an elephant to show.
No one here has ever seen an elephant.
They bring it at night to a dark room.
One by one, we go in the dark and come out
saying how we experience the animal.
One of us happens to touch the trunk.
A water-pipe kind of creature.
Another, the ear. A very strong, always moving
back and forth, fan-animal. Another, the leg.
I find it still, like a column on a temple.
Another touches the curved back.
A leathery throne. Another the cleverest,
feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of porcelain.
He is proud of his description.
Each of us touches one place
and understands the whole that way.
The palm and the fingers feeling in the dark
are how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.
If each of us held a candle there,
and if we went in together, we could see it.

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