Editorial Illustrations
rest of world
illustration and collage animation
Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. They connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.
Paus has worked on several editorial illustrations for the publication.
Art Direction: Munira Mutaher
Art: Deepti Megh
Digital Repatriation
We were commissioned to create an Animated Editorial Illustration to accompany a feature story on Digital Repatriation.
The story followed The @lootynft digital heist of the Benin Bronzes, and explored the role of technology in the broader repatriation debate. We were also inspired by Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles’s digital heist of the Nefertiti bust, housed at the Neues Museum, where they created a 3D copy of the bust, releasing it online under Creative Commons. We played around with the bust, creating digital sculpts of our own.
The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them.
Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections, despite concerns of curbing freedom of speech.
Read article here.
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative
The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
Read full article here.
