Emocean

Editorial illustration for Emocean Issue #02, with creative direction by Thembi Hanify. This illustration accompanies a dystopian futurism piece written by Margaret Seelie.

Emocean is an everyperson surf magazine that champions diverse perspectives, radical creativity, relatability, empowerment, and especially the narratives of women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ surfers.

For this project, we wanted to bring Margaret's fictional story to life, which depicts a world in the not-so-distant-future where the ocean is too toxic to swim in and surfers are forced to use man-made wave pools (which are controlled by an app called Wavestore). For most of your paycheck and a 3-month waitlist, you too can surf Rincon. Well, a glitchy simulation of Rincon that is…