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A SMOKE

BY EDUARDO PEÑA

JOB TITLE: Design Professor / Visualist

SOFTWARE USED: Photoshop

CONCEPT

In general, it all started when I imagined a future of fiction, not dark but decadent; a cold future with a friendly aura and a sense of quality, and yet with a feeling of quiet aggression too. What I really wanted to express in this piece was something very complicated, using the art of visual language.

Fig. 01

Before conveying something in an ...

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