Joe Magee / Harvard University / Harvard Law Bulletin: “America Unfinished”

Joe Magee has been commissioned by Harvard Law Bulletin (Harvard University) to illustrate a feature, ‘America Unfinished’. The piece looks at the USA through the prism of law as a work-in-progress, echoing the call of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to continue the unfinished business. Democracy must always be a negotiation, nothing is solved through force. The magazine wanted a conceptual piece and Joe’s solution was to visualise the actual building blocks of an ongoing, perhaps never complete, project. The illustration employs simple flat colors and grey halftones for a clean look