These illustrations were created for Re:think, the design studio within The Atlantic
for a paid post by CBS All Access to promote The Twilight Zone reboot in 2019.
The post revisited four of the most iconic TZ episodes relating their themes to today's events and contemporary climate.
Illustrations: Matt Chinworth
Art Director: Drew Campbell
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The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Aliens, it’s surmised, may live among them, though there’s no clear sense of who the “monster” is. The town dwellers seek to root out the threat from within and point to differences among themselves as cause for violent protective measures. Paranoia and mob mentality overcome goodwill and reason.
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Eye Of The Beholder
“I want to belong.” This is a relatively common sentiment, but for Miss Janet Tyler, it’s also a plea for her life. The outcome of her state-sponsored cosmetic procedure will determine her future. She undergoes repeated treatments to adhere to her society’s aim of “glorious conformity.”
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Deaths-Head Revisited
The Dachau concentration camp, for Gunther Lutze, is a site of inescapable reckoning. The memories he otherwise might hide or suppress are brought to the fore, but only when the evidence of what he has done stands before him. How a society chooses to remember the mistakes it has made and how it memorializes those it has lost reflects its willingness to engage with what it has done wrong.
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To Serve Man
The prospect of otherworldly, advanced beings offering a panacea for Earth’s intractable issues has its appeal. We frequently adopt quick fixes—digital on-demand services or apps, for instance—at a breakneck pace and without due consideration of their potentially insidious consequences.
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Sketches, Ideation, and Extras
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