The humanitarian U2 rocker illustrated the Atlantic’s June cover for a story about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the future of the country’s war with Russia.
“This is a delightful and odd thing,” Goldberg thought at the time, “to have one of the world’s biggest rock stars spending time on his iPad redesigning your covers.”
As a freelance artist, he didn’t get rock-star treatment. He went back and forth with art director Oliver Munday on 15 to 20 different iterations of the image, which is typical, and it started as a simple line drawing of Zelensky. affairs as he is for music; he’s a regular on the world-leader circuit, pushing causes related to AIDS and climate change. Goldberg said they’ve talked at length about Zelensky and the fate of Ukraine. Bono has an affinity for Zelensky; he traveled with U2 bandmate the Edge to perform in a Kyiv subway last year, at Zelensky’s invitation.“We have burdened [Zelensky] with impossible expectations — and impossibly, he has not let us down,” Bono wrote in his email.
“Bono sketched quickly and prolifically,” Munday wrote, and they gravitated toward versions that presented a “simplified Zelensky, rendered almost like a stencil cutout.”Other versions were black and white and blue and white before they landed on yellow and blue, evoking the Ukrainian flag.
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