Margaret Diagnon
Aeverywhere
Aeverywhere is a magazine helping creative people understand the world by addressing hard-to-discuss problems. Each issue discusses topics in the fields of political, environmental, or societal issues while showcasing related artists who have dedicated their careers to bringing public awareness to these topics. Throughout history, Art has taught us how people see themselves and the world around them. Aeverywhere is not only recording today's major controversial issues with trustworthy articles and possible solutions but also detailing how contemporary artists are viewing these issues, expressing how they feel about them, and how they are choosing to introduce and educate their audiences on these touchy topics.
Aeverywhere was created in a state of turmoil. A state of confusion and uncertainty for the world, the country, and the designer behind this project. Growing up the world has always seemed to be a mess. Sometimes the chaos is beautiful. Other times, human beings lose their rights on a random summer afternoon, you can’t count how many different mass school shootings you have heard about in the last month, items that people use day in and day out regularly kill sea life and damage the planet we live on, there are so many strains of new diseases spreading that you haven’t heard much about the war going on lately, gas is $5 a gallon, and you have to sit and think to yourself about how you still have to go to work on Monday morning despite the world seemingly fall apart. While, of course, I am biased toward my age and time period, I feel it is uniquely difficult to be growing up, going to school, starting your career, or just living these days. Major political, environmental, or societal issues are hard to understand, but art has always made sense to me. I was never great at history, but I can date and explain a painting from almost any era. I wanted to combine my love for art and stress about the current state of the world in this project.