Alex has worked with The New York Times on its massively popular Wordle series, so how does one begin to illustrate the simple grid of Wordle? \u201cThe brief was fairly open to begin with and things started with a few suggested concepts, which were then narrowed down to one which would run across five illustrations,\u201d says Alex. \u201cThe only requirements were to have the number of that day\u2019s Wordle in the same position in the centre, so the composition had to work around and incorporate that, and for the five illustrations to tell a continuous story.\u201d The final concept featured friends foraging for lunch with numbers incorporated into the mushrooms they were picking. Another illustration shows a couple potting plants and another shows a group eating dinner together. There\u2019s a lovely quality to these drawings that bake Wordle into daily life, mirroring how we play the game on the bus to work or competitively with friends.<\/p>\n
These drawings are slightly autobiographical, as most of Alex\u2019s inspirations are drawn from trips to the coast, growing vegetables, cooking and walking along the beach, experiences that lend a sense of personal satisfaction to the illustrations, and give off a wholesome mood. \u201cLife is often fast paced or stressful, with work, relationships, social media, and so the moments where you can slow down and focus on what\u2019s in front of you are really helpful in keeping a balance in life,\u201d says Alex, \u201cand that\u2019s the message I\u2019m often sharing in my work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex has worked with The New York Times on its massively popular Wordle series, so how does one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-514699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}