Deep Futures

Project Info
Title art for episode three of the Deep Futures podcast, The Future of Cities.
Title art for episode six of the Deep Futures podcast, The Future of Farming.
Deep Futures episode playing in the Apple Podcasts app.

Info

Deep Futures is a Mailchimp original podcast that explores how various industries will change in the coming future. Host, Annalee Newitz asks her listeners to imagine what a “better tomorrow” may look like. My role was to brand the series, which involved creating key art, promotional assets, and title artwork for each of the series’ six episodes.

I wanted to incorporate the more abstract themes of the podcast in my design, like imagining what a brighter, optimistic, and more empathetic future might look like. The result is a design system that uses ambient gradients and soft-focus illustrations to represent the uncertainty, but promise, of what “tomorrow” looks like.

Credit

Design
Devin Wistendahl

Creative Direction
Christian Widlic

Art Director
Tiffany Chan