The headline for this Spring 2005 edition of Rode's Retail Report read "Potential time bomb". Konrad and Rode's CEO, Erwin Rode, loved how this editorial illustration turned out.
The US occupation of Iraq had been going on for a while now, and an oil crisis was possibly looming. Konrad used digital finger paint to get that oily feel on the barrels, and kept the colours desert-like, sludge-like.
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