Get Familiar Mag x Slay All Day
Get Familiar Mag partnered up with HipHopHuis to release the second edition of the magazine. To celebrate the release we were asked to design an artwork for the limited edition tote bag. The artwork brings attention to the unequally that we have in this society. Success in life is often linked to the degree of education. However, access to proper education is a privilege and not equally distributed in our society.
The artwork represents a coin with a portrait of Rapsody, a Grammy nominated American rapper, as its coin face. The coin is surrounded by the line “An education, however and wherever we can get it, is aligned with success.”. A quote from her interview in Get Familiar Mag issue 02.
For the other side of the coin we went back to the instrument that gave us one of the very first sounds of hip-hop: the MPC. Surrounding that coin face you’ll see the line “Knowledge is our currency”, because knowledge is a way to empower yourself and others around you. To complete the story of currency, we’ve printed the artwork in a dollar green color.